x86 Assembly Language Reference Manual

SIMD State Management Instructions

The fxsave and fxrstor instructions save and restore the state of the floating-point unit and the MMX, XMM, and MXCSR registers.

Table 3–19 SIMD State Management Instructions

Solaris Mnemonic 

Intel/AMD Mnemonic 

Description 

Notes 

fxrstor

FXRSTOR

restore floating-point unit and SIMD state 

 

fxsave

FXSAVE

save floating-point unit and SIMD state