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GHC 8.4.1 has wrong __GLASGOW_HASKELL__

The title pretty much says it all. As following shell interaction shows, the macro expands into 804, but I expected that it should expand into 840. Was my expectation wrong?

$ ghc --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 8.4.1
$ cat /tmp/Test.hs
{-# LANGUAGE CPP #-}

hello = __GLASGOW_HASKELL__
$ cat /tmp/Test.hspp | sed -r '/^$/d' # preprocessed file has too much whitespace
{-# LINE 1 "/tmp/Test.hs" #-}
# 1 "/tmp/Test.hs"
# 1 "<built-in>"
# 1 "<command-line>"
# 1 "/usr/include/stdc-predef.h" 1 3 4
# 17 "/usr/include/stdc-predef.h" 3 4
# 7 "<command-line>" 2
# 1 "/home/sergey/projects/haskell/ghc/local-8.4.1/lib/ghc-8.4.1/include/ghcversion.h" 1
# 7 "<command-line>" 2
# 1 "/tmp/ghc20375_0/ghc_2.h" 1
# 7 "<command-line>" 2
# 1 "/tmp/Test.hs"
{-# LANGUAGE CPP #-}
hello = 804
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Version 8.4.1
Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority normal
Resolution Unresolved
Component Compiler
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