https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=116017
--- Comment #5 from keithp at keithp dot com <keithp at keithp dot com> --- You're quite correct; conversion from double to float also loses the sign bit. It never occurred to me that RISC-V would be different from every other GCC target in this regard. I'll go stick a whole pile of risc-v specific code where I needs to preserve the sign; I'm glad I don't also have to preserve the significand. Yay for standards! Soft float, double, long double: test/test-nansign_rv64imac_lp64 ld: -nan (sign 1) d: nan (sign 0) f: nan (sign 0) Hard float, soft double, long double: test/test-nansign_rv64imafc_lp64f ld: -nan (sign 1) d: nan (sign 0) f: nan (sign 0) Hard float, hard double, soft long double: test/test-nansign_rv64ifd_lp64d ld: -nan (sign 1) d: nan (sign 0) f: nan (sign 0) Here's the code which generated the above: #define __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__ #include <stdio.h> #include <math.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main(void) { volatile long double ld; volatile double d; volatile float f; int ldbit, dbit, fbit; char ldstr[64]; char dstr[64]; char fstr[64]; ld = (long double) NAN; ld = -ld; ldbit = signbit(ld); strfroml(ldstr, sizeof(ldstr), "%a", ld); d = (double) ld; dbit = signbit(d); strfromd(dstr, sizeof(dstr), "%a", d); d = (double) NAN; d = -d; f = (float) d; fbit = signbit(f); strfromf(fstr, sizeof(fstr), "%a", f); printf("ld: %s (sign %d) d: %s (sign %d) f: %s (sign %d)\n", ldstr, ldbit, dstr, dbit, fstr, fbit); if (ldbit == 0 || dbit == 0 || fbit == 0) return 1; return 0; }