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From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel,comp.lang.c,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Moving floating point values around
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Date: 24 Aug 88 17:33:13 GMT
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In article <4256@lynx.UUCP> m5@lynx.UUCP (Mike McNally) writes:
>How naughty would it be for a compiler for the 386/387 (or 286/287 for that
>matter) to move floating-point values with 386 MOV instructions instead
>of FLD and FSTP?

If I remember correctly, both our '286 and '386 compilers will generate MOVS
instructions to push FP-values on the stack;  they might (I haven't checked)
even generate them for non-stack-pushes.  Yep, just dropped into a subshell
and checked:  neither compiler will uses FLD and FSTP if possible (what if
you don't have an FPU?!  Horror!).


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