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From: mcgrath%tully.Berkeley.EDU@GINGER.BERKELEY.EDU (Roland McGrath)
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Subject: GAS 1.31 `bignum' message
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Date: 13 May 89 22:04:10 GMT
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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.