The contents of floating point registers can be examined using the
command info float (on supported platforms).
(gdb) info float
st0: 0xc4018b895aa17a945000 Valid Normal -7.838871e+308
st1: 0x3ff9ea3f50e4d7275000 Valid Normal 0.0285946
st2: 0x3fe790c64ce27dad4800 Valid Normal 6.7415931e-08
st3: 0x3ffaa3ef0df6607d7800 Spec Normal 0.0400229
st4: 0x3c028000000000000000 Valid Normal 4.4501477e-308
st5: 0x3ffef5412c22219d9000 Zero Normal 0.9580257
st6: 0x3fff8000000000000000 Valid Normal 1
st7: 0xc4028b65a1f6d243c800 Valid Normal -1.566206e+309
fctrl: 0x0272 53 bit; NEAR; mask DENOR UNDER LOS;
fstat: 0xb9ba flags 0001; top 7; excep DENOR OVERF UNDER LOS
ftag: 0x3fff
fip: 0x08048b5c
fcs: 0x051a0023
fopoff: 0x08086820
fopsel: 0x002b
Individual registers can be examined using the variables $reg, where reg is the register name.
(gdb) p $st1
$1 = 0.02859464454261210347719