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1. cmovq · 1790473256 · focus · HN ↗

   Always thought it was strange that fptan also pushes 1 to the register stack. It now makes sense it’s so existing code for the 8087 which was expected to do y/x to get the actual tangent could keep working by doing y/1 on newer processors.

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