http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51446
--- Comment #9 from lucier at math dot purdue.edu 2011-12-08 17:05:43 UTC --- Table 4.7 of the AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volume 1: Application Programming has a footnote 3 that says 3. The floating-point indefinite value is a QNaN with a negative sign and a significand whose value is 1.100 ... 000. Table 4.8 gives the encodings for all the indefinite values again.