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Maskable interrupts trigger events are not always important and so the programmer can decide that the event should not cause a program to jump. Nonmaskable interrupts can not be ignored by the programmer and therefore they have absolute priority.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 14y agothe interrupt which can be ignored by the processor ,while performing its operations are called maskable interrupts. generally maskable interrupts are the interrupts that comes from the pheripheral devices.
where as the non maskable interrupts are the interrupts which cannot be ignored. generally these type of interrupts are specified to be software interrupts.
the examples of maskable are: mouseclick,memoryread etc
the examples of non_maskable are:powerfailure,software corruptedetc
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