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From: exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ambiguous ?
Message-ID: <1989Oct23.094426.4105@gdt.bath.ac.uk>
Date: 23 Oct 89 09:44:26 GMT
References: <1989Oct17.203733.23121@utzoo.uucp> <14091@lanl.gov> <6591@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee)
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In article <6591@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
>	I = RAND(very carefully designed seed)
>	CALL HOOPY(RAND(0), RAND(0), RAND(0))
>
>Will this [FORTRAN] program produce the same output on different machines? 
>Is this guaranteed?

NO.  See section 6.6.2 of the Standard.  Why isn't this in the FORTRAN group?
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