[PATCH 10/11] gas: support NaN flavors

[Jan Beulich]

On 23.07.2021 10:19, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Jul 23 2021, Jan Beulich via Binutils wrote:
> 
>> Note that an anomaly with x86'es double extended precision NaN values
>> gets taken care of at the same time: For all other formats a positive
>> value with all mantissa bits set was used, while here a negative value
>> with all non-significant mantissa bits clear was chosen for an unknown
>> reason.
> 
> Isn't that what the i387 generates as the default NaN?

One of these two forms yes (and you don't clarify which of the
two you mean). In any event there was an inconsistency. Which
way to resolve it is open for discussion of course.

Jan