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x87

The old x86 floating-point unit with a stack of eight 80-bit registers; still present, but modern code uses SSE instead.

x87 is the legacy x86 FPU with an 8-entry register stack of 80-bit extended-precision values; on x86-64 it survives mainly for long double on Linux and macOS and is otherwise replaced by SSE.

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