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[Bug fortran/67039] New: Documentation of pseudorandom number intrinsics is incorrect


https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=67039

            Bug ID: 67039
           Summary: Documentation of pseudorandom number intrinsics is
                    incorrect
           Product: gcc
           Version: 5.2.0
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: trivial
          Priority: P3
         Component: fortran
          Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org
          Reporter: spam.brian.taylor at gmail dot com
  Target Milestone: ---

The gfortran documentation for the RANDOM_NUMBER and RANDOM_SEED subroutines
indicates that they are part of Fortran 95 and later.  In fact, they were
included in the Fortran 90 standard.

The gfortran documentation for the SRAND subroutine, a GNU extension, includes
in the "Notes" section the following: "The Fortran 2003 standard specifies the
intrinsic RANDOM_SEED to initialize the pseudo-random numbers generator and
RANDOM_NUMBER to generate pseudo-random numbers."  The reference here should be
to the Fortran 90 standard, not 2003.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-5.2.0/gfortran/RANDOM_005fNUMBER.html#RANDOM_005fNUMBER

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-5.2.0/gfortran/RANDOM_005fSEED.html#RANDOM_005fSEED

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-5.2.0/gfortran/SRAND.html#SRAND


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