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> I don't believe "fcpy,dbl %%fr0,%%fr0" provides the barrier
> that you want.  The floating-point coprocessor is not required to
> execute instructions sequentially although they must appear
> sequential to software.  The above insn is a nop and the coprocessor
> could throw it away early in the pipeline.

That's what I was beggining to think.
I'll spill it onto the stack as Lamont suggested some time ago.

c.