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Re: Who's the m4 guru?

From: Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>
To: Steven Bosscher <stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com>
Cc: fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org, FX Coudert <fxcoudert at gmail dot com>, Thomas Koenig <Thomas dot Koenig at online dot de>
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:54:25 -0700
Subject: Re: Who's the m4 guru?
References: <20060722194050.GA99567@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20060723132240.GA3169@meiner.onlinehome.de> <44C37B4F.1070307@gmail.com> <200607231543.51706.steven@gcc.gnu.org>

On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 03:43:51PM +0200, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> On Sunday 23 July 2006 15:36, FX Coudert wrote:
> > Quite frankly, the more I think about that, the more I believe we'll end
> > up throwing bytes away (wasting 3 bytes for real(4), and 2 for real(8)
> > and real(10)). That is, unless we manage to find a good mathematician
> > with a proven algorithm fulfilling our needs :)
> 
> This is cursing in the church, perhaps -- but I seem to recall that
> the random number algorithm in g95 is reasonable.  Maybe there's
> something in it that we can pick up or learn from.
> 

I just looked at g95's source code.  We definitely do not
want to its random_number.

-- 
Steve

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