floating point environment, untested

floating point environment, untested

at present the i386 code does not support sse floating point, which is
not part of the standard i386 abi. while it may be desirable to
support it later, doing so will reduce performance and require some
tricks to probe if sse support is present.

this first commit is i386-only, but it should be trivial to port the
asm to x86_64.