Labels:text | screenshot | diagram | rectangle | line | parallel OCR: The IDT is used when a software or hardware interrupt is raised. The IDT trap FIGURE 5 or interrupt gate contains a selector to an executable code descriptor (which provides a base address) and an offset. The offset is added to the base address to access a system handler. The handler's runs at the privilege indicated by the code descriptor interrupt Gate Offset Handler Corte Basse andres