FLD1/FLDL2T/FLDL2E/FLDPI/FLDLG2/FLDLN2/FLDZ—Load Constant

Opcode*	Instruction	64-Bit Mode	Compat/Leg Mode	Description
D9 E8	FLD1	Valid	Valid	Push +1.0 onto the FPU register stack.
D9 E9	FLDL2T	Valid	Valid	Push log₂10 onto the FPU register stack.
D9 EA	FLDL2E	Valid	Valid	Push log₂e onto the FPU register stack.
D9 EB	FLDPI	Valid	Valid	Push π onto the FPU register stack.
D9 EC	FLDLG2	Valid	Valid	Push log₁₀2 onto the FPU register stack.
D9 ED	FLDLN2	Valid	Valid	Push log_e2 onto the FPU register stack.
D9 EE	FLDZ	Valid	Valid	Push +0.0 onto the FPU register stack.

NOTES:

See IA-32 Architecture Compatibility section below.

Description

Push one of seven commonly used constants (in double extended-precision floating-point format) onto the FPU register stack. The constants that can be loaded with these instructions include +1.0, +0.0, log₂10, log₂e, π, log₁₀2, and log_e2. For each constant, an internal 66-bit constant is rounded (as specified by the RC field in the FPU control word) to double extended-precision floating-point format. The inexact-result exception (#P) is not generated as a result of the rounding, nor is the C1 flag set in the x87 FPU status word if the value is rounded up.

See the section titled “Approximation of Pi” in Chapter 8 of the Intel^® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Devel-oper’s Manual, Volume 1, for a description of the π constant.

This instruction’s operation is the same in non-64-bit modes and 64-bit mode.

IA-32 Architecture Compatibility

When the RC field is set to round-to-nearest, the FPU produces the same constants that is produced by the Intel 8087 and Intel 287 math coprocessors.

Operation

TOP := TOP − 1;
ST(0) := CONSTANT;

FPU Flags Affected

C1	Set to 1 if stack overflow occurred; otherwise, set to 0.
C0, C2, C3	Undefined.

Floating-Point Exceptions

#IS	Stack overflow occurred.