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Syscall, System call – NEC Network Controller uPD98502 User Manual

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APPENDIX A MIPS III INSTRUCTION SET DETAILS

Preliminary User’s Manual S15543EJ1V0UM

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SYSCALL

System Call

SYSCALL

SPECIAL

0 0 0 0 0 0

Code

31

26 25

6 5

0

6

20

SYSCALL

0 0 1 1 0 0

6

Format:

SYSCALL

Description:

A system call exception 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:

SystemCallException

Exceptions:

System Call exception