Intel 253666-024US - Manual (Page 442)

3-396 Vol. 2A FSTSW/FNSTSW—Store x87 FPU Status Word
INSTRUCTION SET REFERENCE, A-M
IA-32 Architecture Compatibility
When operating a Pentium or Intel486 processor in MS-DOS compatibility mode, it is
possible (under unusual circumstances) for an FNSTSW instruction to be interrupted
prior to being executed to handle a pending FPU exception. See the section titled
“No-Wait FPU Instructions Can Get FPU Interrupt in Window” in Appendix D of the
Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual, Volume 1, for a
description of these circumstances. An FNSTSW instruction cannot be interrupted in
this way on a Pentium 4, Intel Xeon, or P6 family processor.
Operation
DEST ← FPUStatusWord;
FPU Flags Affected
The C0, C1, C2, and C3 are undefined.
Floating-Point Exceptions
None.
Protected Mode Exceptions
#GP(0) If the destination is located in a non-writable segment.
If a memory operand effective address is outside the CS, DS,
ES, FS, or GS segment limit.
If the DS, ES, FS, or GS register is used to access memory and it
contains a NULL segment selector.
#SS(0) If a memory operand effective address is outside the SS
segment limit.
#NM CR0.EM[bit 2] or CR0.TS[bit 3] = 1.
#PF(fault-code) If a page fault occurs.
#AC(0) If alignment checking is enabled and an unaligned memory
reference is made while the current privilege level is 3.
#UD If the LOCK prefix is used.
Real-Address Mode Exceptions
#GP If a memory operand effective address is outside the CS, DS,
ES, FS, or GS segment limit.
#SS If a memory operand effective address is outside the SS
segment limit.
#NM CR0.EM[bit 2] or CR0.TS[bit 3] = 1.