[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53438] tests: rand.cc: 5 failing tests on i686 due to tolerance changes

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #53438 (project octave):

Interesting.  The short term expedient is to relax the tolerances.  However,
I'm not exactly pleased with that course of action.

Octave code should be portable between platforms.  If I happen to write on a
Mac or i586 machine, and fix a random seed because I want reproducible
results, I should be able to transfer this to an i686 machine without issue.

My guess is that this has to do with preserving extra accuracy, 80 bits versus
64 bits, in the Intel math co-processor.

For the release, go ahead and apply your patch.  But let's leave the bug open
and try to resolve it.



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