[Year 12 SofDev] compiler question

[Calum Munro]

Hi Andrew,

I'm with you. The program runs, so no syntax error. The program crashes when given an incorrect input, that's a run time error for me.

Calum

On 02/09/2013, at 2:37 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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