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SHOW87
Copyright (c) 1988, 1989 Borland International
All Rights Reserved
SHOW87 is a memory-resident program that displays the
entire state of an installed 8087 coprocessor chip when an
8087 is present. This is useful when you're debugging code
that contains 8087 instructions.
SHOW87 has two modes of installation. The default is the
shell mode in which SHOW87 executes a DOS shell, rather
than making itself truly resident. This allows you to
de-install SHOW87 by typing EXIT at any DOS prompt. The
disadvantage of the shell mode is that a second command
processor must be invoked, which uses an extra 3,000 to
4,000 bytes of memory. The other installation mode is the
resident mode, which is specified by the /R parameter.
SHOW87 uses less memory in this mode, but cannot be
removed. SHOW87 alone uses about 5,700 bytes of memory.
Once installed, SHOW87 can be invoked at any time by
pressing Alt-7. Invoking SHOW87 causes most of the upper
half of the screen to display the flags, registers, and
other information regarding the 8087. Pressing any key
exits you from the display and restores the screen.
Normally, you would install SHOW87 before debugging 8087
code and then remove SHOW87 when it's no longer needed.
If SHOW87 cannot properly install itself, it will display
an error message and terminate. The most common reasons
for such an error are insufficient memory, COMMAND.COM not
found, or no 80x87 is detected. COMMAND.COM is only needed
when SHOW87 is run in shell mode. SHOW87 finds the
COMMAND.COM file by looking for the COMSPEC parameter in
the environment (see your DOS manual).
SHOW87 displays all 8087 information, including the
instruction pointer, the operand pointer, the operation
code; the control, status, and tag words; the precision,
rounding, and infinity control settings; the stack top;
the condition codes and their various interpretations; the
exception settings and interrupt mask settings; and the
register values.
The condition code settings represent C3, C2, C1, and C0
respectively. The Comp, Test, and Exam fields display the
meaning of the condition codes as returned by the FCOM,
FTST, and FXAM instructions.
Register values are displayed in one of two ways. If the
number has a tag setting of VALID, the number is displayed
in decimal format. If the number has a tag setting of
SPECIAL or EMPTY, a hexadecimal dump of the number is
displayed. After the mantissa and exponent, the type of
value (as interpreted by the FXAM instruction) is
displayed.