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trap
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1. n. A program interrupt, usually an interrupt caused by some exceptional
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situation in the user program. In most cases, the OS performs some action,
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then returns control to the program. 2. vi. To cause a. These instructions
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to the monitor. Also used transitively to indicate the cause of the. The
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monitors all input/output instructions. This term is associated with
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assembler programming ( interrupt or exception is more common among HLL
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programmers) and appears to be fading into history among programmers as the
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role of assembler continues to shrink. However, it is still important to
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computer architects and systems hackers (see system , sense 1), who use it
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to distinguish deterministically repeatable exceptions from timing-dependent
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ones (such as I/O interrupts).
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