Error Handling Quiz Online Practice Test

1. _______ happens when a result exceeds the maximum limit in magnitude, making it impossible to represent the error as a floating-point value of the specified type.

2. What happens when a result has significantly fewer significant digits than those specified by its type?

3. What type of error arises when a result is undefined for a specific argument value?

4. ______ is the error code associated with a domain error.

5. ERANGE is reported in cases of overflow or underflow.

6. What is the output of the following C code?
errno = 0;
y = sqrt(2);
if(errno == EDOM)
printf("Invalid value\n");
else
printf("Valid value\n");

7. What is the result of executing the following C code?
errno = 0;
y = sqrt(-10);
if(errno == EDOM)
printf("Invalid value \n");
else
printf("Valid value\n");

8. errno can cause issues in two subtle ways: vague and explicit.

9. No library function will set errno to zero.

10. __________ informs the compiler that this data is defined in another location and will be linked during the linking phase.