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Definition of "software interrupt" |
a machine instruction that initiates an interrupt function. Software interrupts are often used for system calls, because they can be executed from anywhere in memory and the processor provides the necessary return address handling. Also known as a supervisor call instruction (SVC) (IBM mainframes) or INT instruction (Intel X86). |
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