Re: Reading and writing GSL random number generators

[Alan Aspuru-Guzik <aspuru at okra dot cchem dot berkeley dot edu>]

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.