Form of Floating Point Instructions

UMBC CMSC 211

All floating point operations, and only floating point operations, start with an initial f.

  foperation    zero or more operands

For BCD and integer operands, there is a second letter:

  fboperation operand     ;BCD operand
  fioperation operand     ;Integer operand

All other second letters are for floating point arguments.

If the last letter is a 'p', the FPU stack is popped on completion of the operation.

  foperationp    zero or more operands