binutils-2.15, gas and mips

[Khaled Daham]

When trying to use the 0f format specifier for immediates an assert is
triggered ( tested with binutils-2.15 and 2.14 )

../configure  --prefix=/tmp/mips --target=mips3 --enable-languages=c
( this was just a test build, the target I am using is not in binutils
without a patch, and no it does not touch that part of load_register, same
assert )

only .s file given as argument to as

Simple test case.

.ent test
test:
 li $2, 0f1.0
.end test


this results in

/tmp/test.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/test.s:3: Internal error!
Assertion failure in load_register at ../../gas/config/tc-mips.c line
3626.
Please report this bug.

generally there doesnt seem to be a case for handling O_big and
X_add_number <= 0 in tc-mips.c wich should indicate that
generic_floating_point_number is holding the data we want.

/Khaled Daham
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