[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #49166] "system.tst" fails under Windows

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #49166 (project octave):

Well, it looks like I know what is happening; But, I don't like the results. 
I re-compiled a version of Octave via MXE where I truncated the intermediate
results in Fcputime in data.cc.

I changed


  double usr = cpu_tm.user ();
  double sys = cpu_tm.system ();


to


  OCTAVE_FLOAT_TRUNCATE double usr = cpu_tm.user ();
  OCTAVE_FLOAT_TRUNCATE double sys = cpu_tm.system ();


The script which used to fail on the first or second iteration now passes 200
iterations without problem.

I'm adding jwe to the CC list for the bug.  This is a fairly large
architectural question.  Do we want to find all places in the code where there
is a potential for extra precision to be maintained and use
OCTAVE_FLOAT_TRUNCATE?  Or do we want to just add a tolerance to the BIST
tests whenever we encounter these issues?  I'm tempted to mark this as
Postponed since I don't think the answer will be clear before the 4.2.0
release is made.


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