diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/TriangularMatrix.h b/Eigen/src/Core/TriangularMatrix.h
index 34b029421..1286bf6a6 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/TriangularMatrix.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/TriangularMatrix.h
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ template<typename _MatrixType, unsigned int _Mode> class TriangularView
     DenseMatrixType toDenseMatrix() const
     {
       DenseMatrixType res(rows(), cols());
-      res = *this;
+      evalToLazy(res);
       return res;
     }
 
diff --git a/test/triangular.cpp b/test/triangular.cpp
index a10b457a7..379f586c4 100644
--- a/test/triangular.cpp
+++ b/test/triangular.cpp
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ template<typename MatrixType> void triangular_square(const MatrixType& m)
 
   m1 = MatrixType::Random(rows, cols);
   for (int i=0; i<rows; ++i)
-    while (ei_abs2(m1(i,i))<1e-3) m1(i,i) = ei_random<Scalar>();
+    while (ei_abs2(m1(i,i))<1e-1) m1(i,i) = ei_random<Scalar>();
 
   Transpose<MatrixType> trm4(m4);
   // test back and forward subsitution with a vector as the rhs