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

[kargl at gcc dot gnu.org]

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

--- Comment #5 from kargl at gcc dot gnu.org ---
(In reply to Dominique d'Humieres from comment #4)
> > > Resolved as WONTFIX?
> >
> > Probably not.  See the last 2 paragraphs in comment #1.
> 
> Sorry, but my question was motivated by the reading of these two
> paragraphs!-(
> Thus two more explicit questions:
> 
> (1) Shall I submit a patch to replace in the manual all the "Fortran 95 and
> later" with "Fortran 90 and later" where appropriate?

No.  gfortran never tried to address the Fortran 90 standard.
Whatever is stated in F90 is irrelevant to the extent that 
gfortran is a Fortran 95 compiler and F90 beget F95.

> 
> (2) Shall I submit a patch to replace 
> 
> The Fortran 2003 standard specifies the intrinsic RANDOM_SEED to initialize 
> the pseudo-random numbers generator and RANDOM_NUMBER to generate 
> pseudo-random numbers.
> 
> with
> 
> The Fortran 9? standard specifies the intrinsic RANDOM_SEED to initialize
> the pseudo-random numbers generator and RANDOM_NUMBER to generate 
> pseudo-random numbers. These intrinsics should be used in new codes.
> 

I would not not call out a particular standard version.  Probably
something like 

 The Fortran standard specifies the intrinsic subroutine RANDOM_SEED
 to initialize the pseudo-random numbers generator and the intrinsic
 subroutine RANDOM_NUMBER to generate pseudo-random numbers.  These
 subroutines should be used in new codes.