stack usage on transfers to interrupt handling routines

Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual, Volume 1, pg 6-15:

Quote:

If no stack switch occurs, the processor does the following when calling an interrupt or exception handler (see Figure 6-5):
1. Pushes the current contents of the EFLAGS, CS, and EIP registers (in that order) on the stack.
2. Pushes an error code (if appropriate) on the stack.

I intercept INT 06h, INT 09h, and INT 70h in real mode. and I use hardcoded pointers to redirect execution flow in the following way:

Code:

int_handler:
push bx
push ax
. . .
. . .
mov bp, sp
mov bx, [ss:bp+4]     ;mov IP of interrupted instruction to BX 
mov ax, label         ;
mov [ss:bp+4], ax     ;mov new return point (IP) on the stack
mov bp, bx            ;BP = previous return point (IP)
mov al, 20h
out 20h, al
out 0A0h, al
pop ax
pop bx
iret

This code works fine on Bochs 2.3.6. As you can see, no error code is pushed on the stack when passing control to interrupt handler.
So, my question is: what does this error code, that is described in the manual, stand for? if this error code is pushed for some reason on the stack, my program will crash.

one more question is: should I call CLI/STI commands when enter/exit interrupt handler?