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Chapter 8. Floating-Point Anyone? > Loading/Storing Numbers and the FPU Stack - Pg. 214

214 Chapter 8: Floating-Point Anyone? Loading/Storing Numbers and the FPU Stack FLD -- Floating-Point Load Mnemonic P PII K6 3D! 3Mx+ SSE SSE2 A64 SSE3 E64T FLD ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü FPU fld source Single-precision Double-precision Extended-precision 32 64 80 The floating-point load instruction loads the value in memory, expands it to an 80-bit double extended-precision floating-point form, and pushes it on the stack, thereby making it addressable by the FPU as reg-