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Exception and Trap Instructions

rfeFrom Exception
Restore the Status register.

syscallCall
Register $v0 contains the number of the system call (see Table 1) provided by SPIM.

break n
Cause exception n. Exception 1 is reserved for the debugger.

nopoperation
Do nothing.



Mitch Roth
Fri Sep 6 23:25:26 ADT 1996