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INTERRUPT AND EXCEPTION HANDLING
While priority among these classes listed in Table 6-2 is consistent throughout the 
architecture, exceptions within each class are implementation-dependent and may 
vary from processor to processor. The processor first services a pending exception or 
interrupt from the class which has the highest priority, transferring execution to the 
first instruction of the handler. Lower priority exceptions are discarded; lower priority 
interrupts are held pending. Discarded exceptions are re-generated when the inter-
rupt handler returns execution to the point in the program or task where the excep-
tions and/or interrupts occurred. 
6.10 
INTERRUPT DESCRIPTOR TABLE (IDT)
The interrupt descriptor table (IDT) associates each exception or interrupt vector 
with a gate descriptor for the procedure or task used to service the associated excep-
tion or interrupt. Like the GDT and LDTs, the IDT is an array of 8-byte descriptors (in 
5
Nonmaskable Interrupts (NMI)
 1
6
Maskable Hardware Interrupts 
1
7
Code Breakpoint Fault
8
Faults from Fetching Next Instruction 
- Code-Segment Limit Violation
- Code Page Fault
9
Faults from Decoding the Next Instruction
- Instruction length > 15 bytes 
- Invalid Opcode 
- Coprocessor Not Available
10 (Lowest)
Faults on Executing an Instruction
- Overflow
- Bound error
- Invalid TSS
- Segment Not Present
- Stack fault
- General Protection
- Data Page Fault
- Alignment Check
- x87 FPU Floating-point exception
- SIMD floating-point exception
NOTE:
1. The Intel486™ processor and earlier processors group nonmaskable and maskable interrupts in 
the same priority class.
Table 6-2.  Priority Among Simultaneous Exceptions and Interrupts (Contd.)