[Year 12 SofDev] compiler question

[Matheson, Geoff J]

I'd suggest that "types in PIP" relates to creating some kind of test harness for his code, and thus it it part of "testing" but not that the program is running. But it's a badly worded question, because the program crashing would usually mean the program itself actually starts running.

Geoff Matheson

On 2 Sep 2013, at 2:39 pm, "Andrew Pate" <arp at mentonegrammar.net<mailto:arp at mentonegrammar.net>> wrote:

Hi all,
I have purchased the IARTV trial exams and am wondering about one of their multi-choice answers.Your help is, as always, appreciated.

The question asks about a function written which is called “POP”, but “when testing his stack Alan accidentally types in PIP and the program crashes”.
The multi-choice answers has us choose from runtime error or syntax error.

They suggest the answer is syntax error (and explain that a name, expression etc…that the compiler cannot understand causes a syntax error)

Now, if the program IS RUNNING and THEN crashes, does that not imply that it compiled? Therefore, it is a runtime error (where validation of input was not handled) or am I thinking too language specifically?

Thanks


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