mcgrath%tully.Berkeley.EDU@GINGER.BERKELEY.EDU (Roland McGrath) (05/14/89)
GAS 1.31 on a Sun 3 (68020), Sun Unix 3.5. The input: fmoved #0x7ff0000000000000, fp0 generates the warning: "Bignum assumed to be binary bit-pattern" This is somewhat annoying for me, but could cause serious confusion for others who don't know where it came from. (That bit pattern is IEEE infinity, which is what I use for HUGE_VAL in the GNU C Library.) Sun as doesn't complain. I don't understand why this warning could ever be useful. Obviously, a literal number is a bit pattern.