X86 Assembly/Floating Point
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[edit] x87 Coprocessor
The original x86 family members had a separate math coprocessor that would handle the floating point arithmetic. The original coprocessor was the 8087, and all FPUs since have been dubbed "x87" chips. Later variants integrated the floating point unit (FPU) into the microprocessor itself. Having the capability to manage floating point numbers means a few things:
- The microprocessor must have space to store floating point numbers
- The microprocessor must have instructions to manipulate floating point numbers
This page will talk about these 2 points in detail. The FPU, even when it is integrated into an x86 chip is still called the "x87" section, even though it is part of the x86 chip. For instance, literature on the subject will frequently call the FPU Register Stack the "x87 Stack", and the FPU operations will frequently be called the "x87 instruction set".
[edit] FPU Register Stack
The FPU has 8 registers, formed into a stack. Numbers are pushed onto the stack from memory, and are popped off the stack back to memory. FPU instructions generally will pop the first two items off the stack, act on them, and push the answer back on to the top of the stack.
Floating point numbers may generally be either 32 bits long (C "float" type), or 64 bits long (C "double" type). However, in order to reduce round-off errors, the FPU stack registers are all 80 bits wide.
[edit] Floating-Point Instruction Set
[edit] Original 8087 instructions
F2XM1, FABS, FADD, FADDP, FBLD, FBSTP, FCHS, FCLEX, FCOM, FCOMP, FCOMPP, FDECSTP, FDISI, FDIV, FDIVP, FDIVR, FDIVRP, FENI, FFREE, FIADD, FICOM, FICOMP, FIDIV, FIDIVR, FILD, FIMUL, FINCSTP, FINIT, FIST, FISTP, FISUB, FISUBR, FLD, FLD1, FLDCW, FLDENV, FLDENVW, FLDL2E, FLDL2T, FLDLG2, FLDLN2, FLDPI, FLDZ, FMUL, FMULP, FNCLEX, FNDISI, FNENI, FNINIT, FNOP, FNSAVE, FNSAVEW, FNSTCW, FNSTENV, FNSTENVW, FNSTSW, FPATAN, FPREM, FPTAN, FRNDINT, FRSTOR, FRSTORW, FSAVE, FSAVEW, FSCALE, FSQRT, FST, FSTCW, FSTENV, FSTENVW, FSTP, FSTSW, FSUB, FSUBP, FSUBR, FSUBRP, FTST, FWAIT, FXAM, FXCH, FXTRACT, FYL2X, FYL2XP1
[edit] Added in specific processors
Added with 80287
FSETPM
Added with 80387
FCOS, FLDENVD, FNSAVED, FNSTENVD, FPREM1, FRSTORD, FSAVED, FSIN, FSINCOS, FSTENVD, FUCOM, FUCOMP, FUCOMPP
Added with Pentium Pro
FCMOVB, FCMOVBE, FCMOVE, FCMOVNB, FCMOVNBE, FCMOVNE, FCMOVNU, FCMOVU, FCOMI, FCOMIP, FUCOMI, FUCOMIP, FXRSTOR, FXSAVE
Added with Pentium 4 supporting SSE3
as part of the SSE3 branding
FISTTP (x87 to integer conversion)
