UNIT-III
DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNIOLOGY::SVECW Page 9
• Status: The bit status register contains bits that reflect the current state of the floating-point unit, including a bit pointer to the top of the stack condition codes reporting the outcome of the last operation and exception flags.
• Tag word This bit register contains a bit tag for each floating-point numeric register, which indicates the nature of the contents of the corresponding register. The four possible values are valid, zero, special (NaN, infinity, denormalized),and empty.
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