From bd01acdfbc79de2431324ab115ffca48f5d29909 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip Hyunsu Cho <chohyu01@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2018 14:15:47 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Save outputs in high precision in CLI prediction (#3356)

Currently, `CLIPredict()` saves prediction results in default 6-digit precision which causes precision loss. This PR sets precision to a level so that the conversion back to `bst_float` is lossless.

Related: #3298.
---
 src/cli_main.cc | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/cli_main.cc b/src/cli_main.cc
index 068cf0de4..1bb39aaf0 100644
--- a/src/cli_main.cc
+++ b/src/cli_main.cc
@@ -333,7 +333,8 @@ void CLIPredict(const CLIParam& param) {
       dmlc::Stream::Create(param.name_pred.c_str(), "w"));
   dmlc::ostream os(fo.get());
   for (bst_float p : preds.HostVector()) {
-    os << p << '\n';
+    os << std::setprecision(std::numeric_limits<bst_float>::max_digits10 + 2)
+       << p << '\n';
   }
   // force flush before fo destruct.
   os.set_stream(nullptr);