What is the difference between Trap and Interrupt?

Question

What is the difference between Trap and Interrupt?

If the terminology is different for different systems, then what do they mean on x86?

Answer 1

A trap is a software interrupt.If you write a program in which you declare a variable having divide by zero value then it is treated as a trap.Whenever you run this program it will throw same error at the same time.System call is a special version of trap in which a program asks os for its required service. In case of interrupt(a general word for hardware interrupts)like an i/o error,the cpu is interrupted at random time and off course it is not the fault of our programmers.It is the hardware that brings them up.