From: "Alexei A. Frounze" <alex DOT fru AT mtu-net DOT ru>
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Subject: Re: Q: operand size - FPU instructios
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 22:48:16 +0300
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Hi!

I mean I can't tell to the AS that a variable is (let's say) double.
B,W and L suffixes tells AS that it must treat an integer variable as
either byte or word or double word.

But appending these suffixes to FPU instructions, I get error messages
like "invalid instruction" or something like that. I.e. AS doesn't
recognize FILDW (for 16-bit integer), FLDQ (floating point double), FLDT
(floating point extended - FPU internal 10-byte format).


So is it possible to tell AS that some variable has size of N bytes (for
FPU instructins, not CPU ones)?

Alexei A. Frounze

Prashant TR wrote:
> You probably used the wrong syntax. Try this
> 
> fldt %st(0)
> 
> And, of course, it depends on what you mean by "didn't work?", i.e.,
> whether you got a compiler error or the runtime results weren't right.