ambiguous ?

[P E Smee]

In article <6591 at ficc.uu.net> peter at 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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