x86 help

[Amaranthine]

I was programming today when I realised I have no idea how to use floating point arithmatic with x86 assembly.
I opened up intel's documentation and found an onslought of instructions I had never seen or heard about, books of mine mentioned them but never went over it at all.

I'd really like to put these instructions to use, but I don't know how...
(do I need to run the FLDENV instruction to do anything?)
I would greatly appreciate it if someone could give me a short explanation of what the c0, c1, c2, and c3 flags are.
What the ST(i) register? is, and a quick example of how to do anything at all (such as FMUL or any fpu instruction)

Intel's documentation has only baffeled me, if I could even get a quick starter on how the hell you do anything with this stuff I think I could get the hang of it from there on my own.

Thanks yet again

[npa]

not to take you from this site,
but here: http://win32asmboard.cjb.net is a great
place to learn about assembly ... searching around
and you will find many discussions of FPU.

[npa]

http://board.win32asmcommunity.net/p...x.php/HomePage nice online book developed by the community about asm, contains small info on fpu

[Hamlin]

Amaranthine, if this is still a live issue, let me know please.