Software-generated interrupts in the IA-32 architecture can be used to ________.

a) indicate errors occurring in hardware
b) perform system calls
c) indicate an I/O completion
d) none of the above

b) perform system calls

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a. true b. false

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Which of the following is not true about bool values and how they are output with the output stream?

a. The old style of representing true/false values used -1 to indicate false and 1 to indicate true. b. A bool value outputs as 0 or 1 by default. c. Stream manipulator boolalpha sets the output stream to display bool values as the strings "true" and "false". d. Both boolalpha and noboolalpha are “sticky” settings.

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