9.5 IDT Descriptors

The IDT may contain any of three kinds of descriptor:

Task gates
Interrupt gates
Trap gates

Figure 9-3 illustrates the format of task gates and 80386 interrupt gates and trap gates. (The task gate in an IDT is the same as the task gate already discussed in Chapter 7.)

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