[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #58956] Empty plot for certain xlim / ylim settings

[Markus Mützel]

Follow-up Comment #11, bug #58956 (project octave):

That might be far fetched: But most of OpenGL "is" single precision. The
interface to glOrtho uses ´double´, but it might be that these values are
cast to ´float´ somewhere for its calculations.
Depending on where this conversion happens, it might be necessary that
"nearVal" and "farVal" must be different in single precision to avoid a
division by 0 (or something similar):

>> single((1e+11 + 2.0) - (1e+11 - 2.0))
ans =
     4
>> single(1e+11 + 2.0) - single(1e+11 - 2.0)
ans =
     0
>> single(1e+6 + 2.0) - single(1e+6 - 2.0)
ans =
     4


Maybe we should make sure that "nearVal" and "farVal" differ on the 23-bit
mantissa of a single precision floating point number?

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