Causes the debugger to break whenever an exception is signaled. The break action occurs before any application-declared exception handlers are invoked. As a result of a SET BREAK/EXCEPTION command, whenever your program generates an exception, the debugger suspends program execution, reports the exception, and displays its prompt. When you resume execution from an exception breakpoint, the behavior is as follows: o If you enter a GO command without an address-expression parameter, the exception is resignaled, thus allowing any application-declared exception handler to execute. o If you enter a GO command with an address-expression parameter, program execution continues at the specified location, thus inhibiting the execution of any application- declared exception handler. On Alpha, you must explicitly set a breakpoint in the exception handler before entering a STEP or a GO command to get the debugger to suspend execution within the handler. o If you enter a CALL command, the routine specified is executed. On Alpha processors, an exception might not be delivered (to the program or debugger) immediately after the execution of the instruction that caused the exception. Therefore, the debugger might suspend execution on an instruction beyond the one that actually caused the exception.