Re: RC2 test failures

[Mike Miller]

Thanks for testing and following up on your observed test failures.

On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 02:10:29 -0600, chechu wrote:
> As You suspected it is because of tolerances, the actual hugh error is as
> follows:
> 
> ASSERT errors for:  assert (gammainc (200, 200,
> "scaledupper"),17.3984438553791505135122900,-2 * eps)
> 
>   Location  |  Observed  |  Expected  |  Reason
>      ()        17.3984      17.3984      Rel err 6.1259e-16 exceeds tol
> 4.4409e-16 by 2e-16 

Fortunately this was already reported and fixed on the stable branch, so
this won't fail for you with the final Octave 5.1 release.

  https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/eb1d4a619260

> I don't know if it may matter, but Debian is starting to use gcc 8
> toolchains.

I'm not sure about other Octave developers, but I've been working with
gcc 8 for at least 6 months now, and with gcc-trunk occasionally.

-- 
mike

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