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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:x86="http://www.felixcloutier.com/x86"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"></link><title>WAIT/FWAIT
— Wait</title></head><body><header><nav><ul><li><a href='index.html'>Index</a></li><li>December 2023</li></ul></nav></header><h1>WAIT/FWAIT
— Wait</h1>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Opcode</th>
<th>Instruction</th>
<th>Op/En</th>
<th>64-Bit Mode</th>
<th>Compat/Leg Mode</th>
<th>Description</th></tr>
<tr>
<td>9B</td>
<td>WAIT</td>
<td>ZO</td>
<td>Valid</td>
<td>Valid</td>
<td>Check pending unmasked floating-point exceptions.</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>9B</td>
<td>FWAIT</td>
<td>ZO</td>
<td>Valid</td>
<td>Valid</td>
<td>Check pending unmasked floating-point exceptions.</td></tr></table>
<h2 id="instruction-operand-encoding">Instruction Operand Encoding<a class="anchor" href="#instruction-operand-encoding">
</a></h2>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Op/En</th>
<th>Operand 1</th>
<th>Operand 2</th>
<th>Operand 3</th>
<th>Operand 4</th></tr>
<tr>
<td>ZO</td>
<td>N/A</td>
<td>N/A</td>
<td>N/A</td>
<td>N/A</td></tr></table>
<h2 id="description">Description<a class="anchor" href="#description">
</a></h2>
<p>Causes the processor to check for and handle pending, unmasked, floating-point exceptions before proceeding. (FWAIT is an alternate mnemonic for WAIT.)</p>
<p>This instruction is useful for synchronizing exceptions in critical sections of code. Coding a WAIT instruction after a floating-point instruction ensures that any unmasked floating-point exceptions the instruction may raise are handled before the processor can modify the instructions results. See the section titled “Floating-Point Exception Synchronization” in Chapter 8 of the Intel<sup>®</sup> 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developers Manual, Volume 1, for more information on using the WAIT/FWAIT instruction.</p>
<p>This instructions operation is the same in non-64-bit modes and 64-bit mode.</p>
<h2 id="operation">Operation<a class="anchor" href="#operation">
</a></h2>
<pre>CheckForPendingUnmaskedFloatingPointExceptions;
</pre>
<h2 id="fpu-flags-affected">FPU Flags Affected<a class="anchor" href="#fpu-flags-affected">
</a></h2>
<p>The C0, C1, C2, and C3 flags are undefined.</p>
<h2 class="exceptions" id="floating-point-exceptions">Floating-Point Exceptions<a class="anchor" href="#floating-point-exceptions">
</a></h2>
<p>None.</p>
<h2 class="exceptions" id="protected-mode-exceptions">Protected Mode Exceptions<a class="anchor" href="#protected-mode-exceptions">
</a></h2>
<table>
<tr>
<td>#NM</td>
<td>If CR0.MP[bit 1] = 1 and CR0.TS[bit 3] = 1.</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>#UD</td>
<td>If the LOCK prefix is used.</td></tr></table>
<h2 class="exceptions" id="real-address-mode-exceptions">Real-Address Mode Exceptions<a class="anchor" href="#real-address-mode-exceptions">
</a></h2>
<p>Same exceptions as in protected mode.</p>
<h2 class="exceptions" id="virtual-8086-mode-exceptions">Virtual-8086 Mode Exceptions<a class="anchor" href="#virtual-8086-mode-exceptions">
</a></h2>
<p>Same exceptions as in protected mode.</p>
<h2 class="exceptions" id="compatibility-mode-exceptions">Compatibility Mode Exceptions<a class="anchor" href="#compatibility-mode-exceptions">
</a></h2>
<p>Same exceptions as in protected mode.</p>
<h2 class="exceptions" id="64-bit-mode-exceptions">64-Bit Mode Exceptions<a class="anchor" href="#64-bit-mode-exceptions">
</a></h2>
<p>Same exceptions as in protected mode.</p><footer><p>
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