BRK

Breakpoint instruction. A BRK instruction generates a Breakpoint Instruction exception. The PE records the exception in ESR_ELx, using the EC value 0x3c, and captures the value of the immediate argument in ESR_ELx.ISS.

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11010100001imm1600000

BRK #<imm>

if HaveBTIExt() then SetBTypeCompatible(TRUE);

Assembler Symbols

<imm>

Is a 16-bit unsigned immediate, in the range 0 to 65535, encoded in the "imm16" field.

Operation

AArch64.SoftwareBreakpoint(imm16);


Internal version only: isa v32.13, AdvSIMD v29.05, pseudocode v2020-12, sve v2020-12 ; Build timestamp: 2020-12-16T16:53

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