The Art of Assembly Language, 2nd Edition

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The Intel/AMD processor manuals fully describe the operation of each of the integer and floating-point arithmetic instructions, including a detailed description of how these instructions affect the condition code bits and other flags in the EFLAGS and FPU status registers. To write the best possible assembly language code, you need to be intimately familiar with how the arithmetic instructions affect the execution environment, so spending time with the Intel/AMD manuals is a good idea.

The HLA Standard Library provides a large number of floating-point functions for which there are no individual machine instructions. The HLA Standard Library also provides functions like math.sin and math.cos that overcome limitations of ...