Re: gfortran ---problem with random umber

On Fri, 16 May 2008 08:25:06 +0000 (UTC), FX wrote:

This seems much more i[n]formative than the entry in gfortran.pdf.

The entry Steve quoted *is* in your doc (whether HTML of PDF). The RAN
entry, which you quoted, says "see RAND for complete documentation". Now,
the RAND entry is just next to that one, and even if it weren't both HTML
and PDF docs have plenty of hyperlinks to get you from one place to
another: in the case here, clicking on *RAND* in "see RAND for complete
documentation" would have scrolled down to the RAND entry.

When I look at "colour" in my New Oxford American Dictionary, it says
"Bristish spelling of COLOR". And I go to COLOR (and they also have
hyperlinks) if I want more.

Fair enough. I think it's a bit of an uphill battle with the documentation
on the gnu project. As I haven't contributed anything to the project, I
don't feel justified to criticize. If someone told me to #define RAN RAND,
I'd just get C flashbacks. I commented on it because it seemed like OP had
an issue that wasn't addressed by the manual, and was being emphatically
told to the contrary.

For whatever computer time I've had today, I've been trying to get the
upper hand on gdb. Am I correct that I must compile a whole bunch of files
in order for gdb.exe to exist on my machine? I made the download from
http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml .

This is how gdb.c reads:
#include "defs.h"
#include "main.h"
#include "gdb_string.h"
#include "interps.h"

int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
struct captured_main_args args;
memset (&args, 0, sizeof args);
args.argc = argc;
args.argv = argv;
args.use_windows = 0;
args.interpreter_p = INTERP_CONSOLE;
return gdb_main (&args);
}

Many of the instructions in readme.txt seem to be for a differing command
prompt than winxp's.
--
Ron Ford
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