From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: names of FPU registers in inline asm?
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 20:22:06 +0100
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Jason Stratos Papadopoulos writes:
>Hello. There are ample resources on the web for inline assembly in
>DJGPP, but very little regarding floating point. I was wondering:
>what are the FPU registers named? st(0),st(1),... or something else?

They are called %st(0), %st(1), etc.

Hint: with any question like this, just write a little C file that does
what you want, compile it with -S, and look at the assembly code output
by gcc. It's by far the best way to figure out how it all works...


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