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
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.