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Re: Reading and writing GSL random number generators
Dear Olaf,
Now that you are at it, wouldn't a gsl_rng_snprintf be useful? In my
case, I am using XML as I/O, and therefore, I would need to write to a
string, and then write the string itself to an XML node.
Greetings,
Alan
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 07:07, Olaf Lenz wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Here comes the revised code.
>
> With gsl_rng_fprintf, the random number generator state is now output
> in a hex-byte-by-hex-byte fashion (ae 0f 1e ...), the whitespace
> separator in between can be chosen freely.
>
> I've written some documentation for the functions and have left out
> the function "gsl_rng_print_state" from the documentation. I have left
> in the code of the function for compatibility reasons, however. The
> documentation should probably be read and corrected by a native
> English speaker.
>
> Also, I've written tests for 'make check'. I've only tested the code
> on a Linux box so far, but I should hope it's portable as long as a
> char is one byte.
>
> Attached, you'll find:
> - The patch to the sources, that contains the documentation, Makefile
> and test stuff.
> - The new file rng/file.c that contains the implementation of the new
> functions.