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This is the classic definition

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/12.4607

"An interrupt is precise if the saved process state corresponds to a sequential model of program execution in which one instruction completes before the next begins. In a pipelined processor, precise interrupts are difficult to implement because an instruction may be initiated before its predecessors have completed."




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