[beepbeeprichie]

I'm working on a C++ app which deals with very long floats. I'm using the GNU MP library and it outputs correctly in the console but I really need it to output to a file. Does anyone know how do this (combine ofstream and the MP lib)?

Thanks!

[Psyk]

(Original post by beepbeeprichie)
I'm working on a C++ app which deals with very long floats. I'm using the GNU MP library and it outputs correctly in the console but I really need it to output to a file. Does anyone know how do this (combine ofstream and the MP lib)?

Thanks!

What's the problem? If you can output it to std out, then what's stopping you outputting to a file instead? What are using to output it to the console?

[roblee]

I'm not particularly familiar with GMP, but gmp_snprintf() ought to work when used with a temporary buffer. Not elegant, but easy to code and just as fast as anything else (although really, you should just use the fprintf() functions instead of trying to channel everything through ostreams).

http://gmplib.org/manual/Formatted-O...Functions.html

[maturestudy]

What's to stop you just writing it to an ofstream?

mpz_t bigint;
ofstream os(("/tmp/bigintfile");
...
os << "The number I was thinking of was " << bigint << "." << endl;

[beepbeeprichie]

The manual is ****ing horrendous. I can output fine but the decimal places is wrong when using setprecision().

[maturestudy]

cout << setprecision(28) << fixed << n;

[beepbeeprichie]

(Original post by maturestudy)
cout << setprecision(28) << fixed << n;

I think I've realised my stupid error. Whilst stdprecision (x) sets precision by number of decimal places the GNU MP precisions works by bit precision.

[maturestudy]

(Original post by beepbeeprichie)
I think I've realised my stupid error. Whilst stdprecision (x) sets precision by number of decimal places the GNU MP precisions works by bit precision.

I think it's safe to say we'd have been here a long time before I thought of that!