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Which of the following issues may occur when an interrupt signal does not reach the CPU as expected?

A missing interrupt occurs when the hardware does not generate the expected interrupt signal for a change in state, causing the operating system or CPU to wait indefinitely for an interrupt that never arrives.

Related Questions

  • Which type of interrupt is typically used to handle exceptional conditions like division by zero or invalid memory access?
  • Which interrupt type cannot be ignored by the CPU and must be processed immediately?
  • Which of the following is NOT a typical source of an interrupt?
  • What is the purpose of an Interrupt Vector?
  • Which of the following is NOT a type of interrupt?

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