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Clifford 8e243faa3a Fix Linux unit test failure in the wipe tower temperature trace comparison (#15161)
## Problem

`Toolchange temperature commands are unchanged when the wipe tower wait
is off`
(added in #15144) fails on both Linux runners and passes on Windows and
macOS.
It is the only failing test in the suite, and it has been failing on
main since
that PR merged.

| Job | Result |
| --- | --- |
| Windows x64 / Unit Tests | pass |
| Windows arm64 / Unit Tests | pass |
| macOS arm64 / Unit Tests | pass |
| Linux x86_64 / Unit Tests | **fail** |
| Linux aarch64 / Unit Tests | **fail** |

From the merge commit
([Linux
x86_64](https://github.com/OrcaSlicer/OrcaSlicer/actions/runs/31072382258/job/92531704095),
[Linux
aarch64](https://github.com/OrcaSlicer/OrcaSlicer/actions/runs/31072382258/job/92531704075)),
still reproducing on current main:

```
first difference at trace entry 29
  main:   M104 S240 T0 ; preheat T0 time: 31s	lead 30.9s
  branch: M104 S240 T0 ; preheat T0 time: 30s	lead 30.3s
```

## Cause

Each preheat entry records the same quantity twice: `lead` at one
decimal, and
`time:` inside the command text as that value rounded to a whole second.

`split_lead` already compares `lead` with a 0.5s tolerance and explains
why the
estimate moves. `time:` sits in the exactly-compared command text, so it
never
got that tolerance — and being rounded, it flips on a drift far below
0.5s
(30.4 and 30.6 render as `30s` and `31s`). Entry 29 is the only entry in
the
163-entry golden whose lead rounds up; every other preheat sits at
30.0–30.4 and
rounds down, which is why it is the only one that fails.

The variation is per-toolchain, not run to run. Both Linux arches
produce
exactly `lead 30.3s`; Windows x64/arm64 and macOS arm64 all produce
exactly
`30.9s`. Repeated local runs are byte-identical. macOS arm64 passing
while Linux
aarch64 fails rules out the ISA — it is floating-point accumulation over
a few
thousand move durations under GCC vs Clang vs MSVC.

The mechanism makes it discrete rather than gradual: the backtrace parks
the
preheat at the first exported line at least `preheat_time` before the
tool
change, so `lead` is `preheat_time` plus the leftover of whichever move
that
landed on. A sub-tenth difference selects the neighbouring move and
`lead` steps
by that move's whole duration.

Entries 1–28 match exactly, including five earlier preheats whose leads
fall
inside the existing tolerance, so the toolpaths themselves are
identical. I also
reverted the two prime-tower commits that landed between the golden's
capture
point and now, rebuilt, and got a byte-identical trace — this is not
behavioural
drift.

That also rules out regenerating the golden: no single capture satisfies
all
three toolchains, and recapturing on Linux would turn the three
currently-green
runners red.

## Fix

Test-only.

- `lead` keeps a tolerance, widened to 1.5s (measured drift 0.6s; a
preheat
actually leaving its backtrace position would move by tens of seconds).
- `time:` is **not** compared across runs at all. Being a rounding of
`lead`, it
carries nothing the tolerance does not already cover, and comparing it
across
runs can only reproduce the flake. It is instead checked against its own
  entry's `lead` — a correct rounding keeps `|time - lead| <= 0.5`.

That second point matters: simply tolerating `time:` numerically would
have made
the test blind to a real change, because drift and a wrong rounding both
move it
by 1. The self-consistency check keeps that coverage. I verified it by
changing
`(int) std::round(time_diffs[0])` to `(int) time_diffs[0]` in
`GCodeProcessor::export_lines` — the test fails with
`"time:" is not its entry's "lead" rounded to a whole second`, where a
plain
tolerance would have passed silently.

Everything else is still compared exactly: all M104/M109 values, tool
ids,
block markers, ordering, entry count, and the annotation text including
its
trailing `s`. The other 138 entries remain byte-exact.

No production code, no golden regeneration. The golden file and these
helpers
are used by this one test and nothing else, and the tolerance only
widens, so
Windows and macOS keep passing unchanged. A note is added to the
golden's header
so the next mismatch in those fields is not "fixed" by recapturing.

## How to verify

Before, on Linux:

```bash
git checkout main && ./build_linux.sh -t
ctest --test-dir build/tests -R "Toolchange temperature commands are unchanged" --output-on-failure
# fails at trace entry 29
```

After:

```bash
cmake --build build --config Release --target fff_print_tests
ctest --test-dir build/tests --output-on-failure     # 463/463
```
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