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hello all,
   i'm developing out a protected-mode os. I've jumped into the pmode and now i've started writing interrupts. I heard that interrupts 0h-1fh are exceptions and 20h-2fh are for hardware interrupts. I've written a procedure to install the interrupts. The idt structure is:

idt:

%rep  0x1f
dw 0
dw 08h   ; code segment
db 0
db 8eh
dw 0
%endrep

idt_end:

idt_descriptor:
size dw idt_end - idt - 1
dd idt

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I've written a simple interrupt handler for the divide by 0 exception. But, when i write a code as:

mov ax, 20h
mov bl, 0h
div bl
   i get the error message as "3rd (13) exception with no resolution". The interrupt handler is below:

int_0:
pusha
push ss
push gs
push ds
push fs

pop fs
pop ds
pop gs
pop ss
popa
iretd

The gdt structure for the code segment is :

code_descriptor:

dw 0xFFFF
dw 0
db 0
db 0x9A
db 0xCF
db 0



Please help me out of this problem.

Thanks in advance.

1) IDT.offset == 0, but should point at the exception handler

%rep  0x1f
dw 0       <- IDT.offset low word
dw 08h   ; code segment
db 0
db 8eh
dw 0       <- IDT.offset high word
%endrep

2) Your exception handler should not return back to the faulting code:
int_0:
pusha
push ss
push gs
push ds
push fs

pop fs
pop ds
pop gs
pop ss
popa
iretd

instead try:

int_0:
cli
hlt
which will hand the comp.

Cheers

Actually, i've written a procedure to assign the low-word and high-word of the interrupt handler. But, still i get the triple fault when i call the interrupt.