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Interrupt vs Trap In any computer, during its normal execution of a program, there could be events that can cause the CPU to temporarily halt. Events like these are called interrupts. Interrupts can be caused by either software or hardware faults. Hardware interrupts are called (simply) Interrupts, while software interrupts are called Exceptions or Traps. […]
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System Call vs Interrupt A typical processor executes instructions one by one. But there may be occasions when the processor has to stop temporarily and hold the current instruction and execute some other program or code segment (residing in some other place). After doing this, the processor returns to normal execution and continues from where […]
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Interrupt vs Exception In any computer, during its normal execution of a program, there could be events that can cause the CPU to temporarily halt. Events like this are called interrupts. Interrupts can be caused by either software or hardware faults. Hardware interrupts are called (simply) Interrupts, while software interrupts are called Exceptions. Once an […]