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Re: Random Numbers

From: Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>
To: fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org
Cc: Tobias Schlüter <tobias dot schlueter at physik dot uni-muenchen dot de>,Scott Robert Ladd <coyote at coyotegulch dot com>,Lars Segerlund <lars dot segerlund at comsys dot se>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 14:16:49 +0100
Subject: Re: Random Numbers
Organization: CodeSourcery
References: <40898AE3.3010002@coyotegulch.com> <200404240100.39027.paul@codesourcery.com> <408A65C4.6040700@physik.uni-muenchen.de>

On Saturday 24 April 2004 14:04, Tobias Schlüter wrote:
> I don't know how easy it would be to port Andy's random number generator
> to our tree. It seems to work and it uses a fairly advanced algorithm:
> where our current implementation maintains a seed of 624 ints, Andy's
> maintains a seed of three longs. See his blog entry from April 23rd,
> 2003 where he explains it in detail.
>
> If noone objects I will see if I can port it to our library.

You probably want to discuss this with Lars Segerlund. He is/was working on 
the current code.

> In general: Paul, Andy has several enhancements, mostly in his scanner
> and lexer, are these changes welcome to be ported over?

Yes, please do. In some cases we may have solved the same problem in different 
ways. You're still welcome to port a better solution over, it's just 
something to check first.

Paul

Follow-Ups:
- Porting from g95 was: Re: Random Numbers
  - From: Tobias Schlüter

References:
- librarystatus.html
  - From: Scott Robert Ladd
- Re: Random Numbers
  - From: Paul Brook
- Re: Random Numbers
  - From: Tobias Schlüter

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