2.9.10. Exception priorities

When multiple exceptions arise at the same time, a fixed priority system determines the order in which they are handled:

  1. Reset (highest priority)

  2. Data Abort

  3. FIQ

  4. IRQ

  5. Prefetch Abort

  6. Undefined instruction

  7. SWI (lowest priority).

Some exceptions cannot occur together:

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