random behavior of svds function

[Muhali]

I see really strange behavior when testing the svds function. The result is
totally random, as you can see from this:

%> while [[ 1 == 1 ]] ; do ./run-octave --norc --silent --no-history --eval
'test svds' 2>/dev/null | head -1 ; done
PASSES 5 out of 5 tests
  ***** test
  ***** test
  ***** test
PASSES 5 out of 5 tests
  ***** test
  ***** test
  ***** test
  ***** test
  ***** test
PASSES 5 out of 5 tests
PASSES 5 out of 5 tests
PASSES 5 out of 5 tests
PASSES 5 out of 5 tests
  ***** test
  ***** test
...

When it fails, it fails on this:

octave> s = svds (speye (10));
octave> assert (s, ones (6, 1), 2*eps);
error: assert (s,ones (6, 1),2 * eps) expected
   1
   1
   1
   1
   1
   1
but got
   1.0000
   1.0000
   1.0000
   1.0000
   1.0000
   1.0000


What is going on??

I am using the current tip with 64-bit enabled.

M.
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