NASM 2.05 based x86 Instruction Reference[ch143]
A.5.122 INT: Software Interrupt INT imm8 ; CD ib [8086] INT causes a software interrupt through a specified vector number from 0 to 255. The code generated by the INT instruction is always two bytes long: although there are short forms for some INT instructions, NASM does not generate them when it sees the INT mnemonic. In order to generate single-byte breakpoint instructions, use the INT3 or INT1 instructions (see section A.5.123) instead.