Re: 2 test failures on Mac OS 10.6

[Ben Abbott]

On Dec 22, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> I'm seeing two test failures on Mac OS 10.6. The first error is ...
> 
>>>>>> processing 
>>>>>> /Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/src/mappers.cc
>  ***** assert (erf (erfinv ([-0.999 -0.99 0.9999 0.99999])), [-0.999 -0.99 
> 0.9999 0.99999], 1e-16)
> !!!!! test failed
> assert (erf (erfinv ([-0.999, -0.99, 0.9999, 0.99999])),[-0.999, -0.99, 
> 0.9999, 0.99999],1e-16) expected
>  -0.99900  -0.99000   0.99990   0.99999
> but got
>  -0.99900  -0.99000   0.99990   0.99999
> maximum absolute error 1.11022e-16 exceeds tolerance 1e-16
> 
> The actual error is equal to eps/2. Any reason not to increase the tolerance 
> to eps?
> 

I've pushed a changeset to change the test tolerance from 1e-16 to eps.

        http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/44e889c67abe

Ben