[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55577] textscan should reject any single-precision arg as invalid (file-io.cc-tst BIST test failure)

[Mike Miller]

Update of bug #55577 (project octave):

                Category:              Test Suite => Octave Function        
                Severity:              3 - Normal => 4 - Important          
              Item Group:                    None => Missed Error or Warning
                  Status:               Need Info => Confirmed              
                 Summary: test in file-io.cc-tst fails on Octave 5.0.90 (only
in GUI with run_test_suite) => textscan should reject any single-precision arg
as invalid (file-io.cc-tst BIST test failure)

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Follow-up Comment #7:

Thanks, it looks to me like this test is correct and Octave textscan is wrong.
I think the input validation should be fixed, and the test should be fixed to
go back to using file descriptor 4 instead of 40.

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