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From: Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
To: Emil Block <blime@his.com>
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Random Number Generator
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 13:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D4AE077.4FD313A2@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D4AB78B.B9163FC4@his.com>

Emil Block wrote:

> Does anyone know why a call to RAND with G77 returns a different value
> than a call to RAND with F77 using the same seed?  The computer is a SUN
> Sparc with OS 2.7. The same code is compiled in one case with G77 and in
> the other case with F77.
> 
> G77  rand (iseed)     returns 0.563463211
> F77  rand (iseed)     returns 0.843506
> 
> where iseed = 1375.

It would help if you could figure out how the Sun Fortran run time library
does this.

G77's actually does:

srand(iseed);
return rand();

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-02 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-02  9:48 Emil Block
2002-08-02 13:00 ` Toon Moene [this message]
2002-08-02 14:37   ` Emil Block
2002-08-06  9:02     ` Toon Moene

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