DoubleBuffer.compareTo is not anti-symmetric

[Florian Weimer]

* Alan Bateman:

> Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Martin Buchholz:
>>
>>   
>>> I can also do the minimal patch to compareTo
>>> that considers NaN as greater than any other value.
>>>     
>>
>> How do you order NaNs with different bit patterns?

> They are essentially collapsed to a single canonical value.

Does this happen transparently by the JVM?  Double.compare() does not
do it, as far as I can tell.

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