compiler: Use the literal pool for floating point constants

The BEAM loader will put floating point constants into the
literal pools for the module, but it will not check for duplicates.
We can do much better by having the compiler use the literal
pool for floating point constants.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/compiler/src/beam_disasm.erl b/lib/compiler/src/beam_disasm.erl
index 62bdc74cc8..67d756c45c 100644
--- a/lib/compiler/src/beam_disasm.erl
+++ b/lib/compiler/src/beam_disasm.erl
@@ -512,7 +512,12 @@ decode_z_tagged(Tag,B,Bs,Literals) when (B band 16#08) =:= 0 ->
 	    decode_alloc_list(Bs, Literals);
 	4 -> % literal
 	    {{u,LitIndex},RestBs} = decode_arg(Bs),
-	    {{literal,gb_trees:get(LitIndex, Literals)},RestBs};
+	    case gb_trees:get(LitIndex, Literals) of
+		Float when is_float(Float) ->
+		    {{float,Float},RestBs};
+		Literal ->
+		    {{literal,Literal},RestBs}
+	    end;
 	_ ->
 	    ?exit({decode_z_tagged,{invalid_extended_tag,N}})
     end;