https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98253
--- Comment #5 from Damian Rouson <damian at sourceryinstitute dot org> --- Steve, thanks for all the time you put into implementing random_init and responding to this PR. My confusion stemmed from the first sentence that I quoted from the standard. It states that the provided random_init call is equivalent to a processor-dependent random_seed call so I was attempting to replace my two random_seed calls with one random_init call. I see now that such a replacement only works if one knows the correct, processor-dependent seed values, but I also understand now that it would be pointless to do what I'm trying to do. Because the matching seeds would be processor-dependent, the code wouldn't be portable. On a related note, I've been trying over time to evolve away from using "coarray" as the blanket term for all parallel features. Fortran now has so many parallel features that don't necessarily involve coarrays. The IMAGE_DISTINCT argument is one small example so I don't think IMAGE_DISTINCT necessarily has anything to do with coarrays, but it does have to do with multi-image execution.
