Those constants are meant to be used in low level floating point library code. So bit patterns are critical here if you don't want these functions broken in a s

Those constants are meant to be used in low level floating point library code. So bit patterns are critical here if you don't want these functions broken in a subtle way. Here is the patch that introduced the bug http://www.sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=99136f82027a5d6276c94a25d8392a7b571a08a3 http://www.sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commi...