RISC-V support semihosting in very similar way as the cortex-m
microcontrollers. The code calls a breakpoint instruction and the
attached debugger reads/writes registers and memory for stdio.
The RISC-V architecture doesn't support a call number with the EBREAK
instruction, to allow the debugger to detect a semihosting break point,
the EBREAK instruction is wrapped in a SLLI and SRAI instruction. These
use x0 as output register, making them NOP instructions.
One caveat when using this is that the RISC-V core traps the EBREAK
instruction with trap code 3 when no debugger is attached. Restarting
the application with the debugger attached avoids this.