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From: m5@lynx.UUCP (Mike McNally)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: 387 literature
Summary: Wanted: useful, error-free NPX book
Message-ID: <4230@lynx.UUCP>
Date: 16 Aug 88 23:52:51 GMT
Reply-To: m5@lynx.UUCP (Mike McNally)
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Organization: Lynx Real-Time Systems Inc, Campbell CA
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Are there any useful (i.e., not useLESS, like the Intel books) books
about the 80[23]87 numeric coprocessor?  I need a book that has a
decent summary of each instruction and what it does to the stack,
along with some code for dealing with trancendentals with restricted
range (like FPTAN on the 287).  Actually, I can deal with the goofy
trancendentals, but it would be nice to know, for example, whether
FPREM leaves ST and ST(1) both alive, thus requiring a FSTP and an
FPOP (what?!? No FPOP?  gee, whiz; do I really have to FSTP to a dummy
location?).

Come to think of it, the old 8087 book was OK; I never had to really
use it though.

-- 
Mike McNally of Lynx Real-Time Systems

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