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# Logging

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### Events <a href="#events" id="events"></a>

The EraVM event instructions are more low-level. Each `LOG`-like instruction is unrolled into a loop, where each iteration writes two 256-bit words.

The words must contain data in the following order:

1. The initializer cell, describing the number of indexed words (e.g. `I`) and the size of non-indexed data in bytes (e.g. `D`)
2. `I` indexed 32-byte words
3. `D` bytes of data

Each write operation can contain some subsequent data from its next step. If only one word remains, the second input is zero.

See [EraVM instruction: `log.event`](https://matter-labs.github.io/eravm-spec/spec.html#EventDefinition)

### LOG0 - LOG4 <a href="#log0-log4" id="log0-log4"></a>

[LOG0](https://www.evm.codes/#a0?fork=shanghai) - [LOG4](https://www.evm.codes/#a4?fork=shanghai)

#### System Contract <a href="#system-contract" id="system-contract"></a>

This information is requested a System Contract called [EventWriter](https://github.com/code-423n4/2024-03-zksync/blob/main/code/system-contracts/contracts/EventWriter.yul).

On how the System Contract is called, see [System contraacts](https://docs.zksync.io/zk-stack/components/smart-contracts/system-contracts).

[The LLVM IR generator code](https://github.com/matter-labs/era-compiler-llvm-context/blob/main/src/eravm/evm/event.rs#L20) is common for Yul and EVMLA representations.

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