EBREAK

Environment Break

EBREAK

Used by debuggers to cause control to be transferred back to a debugging environment.

Encoding

Binary Layout

00000000000100000000000001110011

31:0

 

Format I-Type

Opcode 0x00100073

Extension RV32I

Operands

Related

Across architectures

Breakpoint Trap : how x86, ARM, RISC-V, and PowerISA each do this.

More in RV32I

Reference

View in RISC-V Unprivileged ISA Specification ↗ RISC-V ISA Manual

Description

EBREAK causes a breakpoint exception to be raised, intended for use by debuggers. Execution is transferred to the appropriate trap handler.

Operation

RaiseException(Breakpoint);