Commit 5267cfcc by Dominique d'Humieres Committed by Dominique d'Humieres

re PR fortran/67039 (Documentation of pseudorandom number intrinsics is incorrect)

2016-04-13  Dominique d'Humieres  <dominiq@lps.ens.fr>

	PR fortran/67039
	* intrinsic.texi: Correct the documentation of pseudorandom
	number intrinsics.

From-SVN: r234946
parent 463d91c6
2016-04-13 Dominique d'Humieres <dominiq@lps.ens.fr>
PR fortran/67039
* intrinsic.texi: Correct the documentation of pseudorandom
number intrinsics.
2016-04-13 Dominique d'Humieres <dominiq@lps.ens.fr>
PR fortran/58000
* gfortran.texi: Document OPEN( ... NAME=) as not implemented
in GNU Fortran
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......@@ -12628,10 +12628,12 @@ Does not return anything.
See @code{RAND} and @code{IRAND} for examples.
@item @emph{Notes}:
The Fortran 2003 standard specifies the intrinsic @code{RANDOM_SEED} to
initialize the pseudo-random numbers generator and @code{RANDOM_NUMBER}
to generate pseudo-random numbers. Please note that in
GNU Fortran, these two sets of intrinsics (@code{RAND},
The Fortran standard specifies the intrinsic subroutines
@code{RANDOM_SEED} to initialize the pseudo-random number
generator and @code{RANDOM_NUMBER} to generate pseudo-random numbers.
These subroutines should be used in new codes.
Please note that in GNU Fortran, these two sets of intrinsics (@code{RAND},
@code{IRAND} and @code{SRAND} on the one hand, @code{RANDOM_NUMBER} and
@code{RANDOM_SEED} on the other hand) access two independent
pseudo-random number generators.
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