14. Coprocessor 0

14.16 WatchLo (18) and WatchHi (19) Registers


WatchHi and WatchLo are 32-bit read/write registers which contain a physical address of a doubleword location in main memory. If enabled, any attempt to read or write this location causes a Watch exception. This feature is used for debugging.

Bits 7:0 of the WatchHi register contain bits 39:32 of the trap physical address, shown in Figure 14-18. The WatchLo register contains physical address bits 31:3. The remaining bits of the register are ignored on write and read as zero.

Table 14-16 describes the WatchLo and WatchHi register fields.



Figure 14-18 WatchLo and WatchHi Register Formats

Table 14-16 WatchHi and WatchLo Register Fields




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