[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53438] tests: rand.cc: known fixed state tests of randn and randg generators inaccurate on i686

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #8, bug #53438 (project octave):

For future reference, this can be reproduced on x86_64 easily by building
Octave with "-mfpmath=387" added to CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS as mentioned in
comment #2.

The generators that are affected are randn and randg. The values produced by
randg are derived from randn values, and both involve floating point
multiplications. With a given fixed state, a user should get the same exact
_uniform_ random number sequence on any system, and those tests do pass.

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