APPENDIX A MIPS III INSTRUCTION SET DETAILS
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BREAK Breakpoint BREAK
code
SPECIAL
0 0 0 0 0 0
BREAK
0 0 1 1 0 1
31 26 25 6 5 0
6206
Format:
BREAK
Description:
A breakpoint trap occurs, immediately and unconditionally transferring control to the exception handler.
The code field is available for use as software parameters, but is retrieved by the exception handler only by loading
the contents of the memory word containing the instruction.
Operation:
32, 64 T: BreakpointException
Exceptions:
Breakpoint exception