What is interrupt table?

Answer Posted / debasish

Suppose a processor is doing its regular work, anything say
continuously printing "Hello World" onto the monitor and u
want to interrupt that process of printing by pressing a key
and print say "Good bye World"
So what happens when u press the key ?
The processor would stop its current job and execute another
program which prints "Good bye World".
The address of that function or similar functions which gets
executed when an interrupt occurs - is/are stored in the
interrupt table

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