NASM 2.05 based x86 Instruction Reference[ch123]
A.5.103 FSTCW: Store Floating-Point Control Word FSTCW mem16 ; 9B D9 /7 [8086,FPU] FNSTCW mem16 ; D9 /7 [8086,FPU] FSTCW stores the FPU control word (governing things like the rounding mode, the precision, and the exception masks) into a 2-byte memory area. See also FLDCW (section A.5.90). FNSTCW does the same thing as FSTCW, without first waiting for pending floating-point exceptions to clear.