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What will happen if in a C program you assign a value to an array element whose subscript exceeds the size of array?

Options
1) The element will be set to 0.
2) The compiler would report an error.
3) The program may crash if some important data gets overwritten.
4) The array size would appropriately grow.

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Kalpana C  (8 years ago)

Answer:3)The program may crash if some important data gets overwritten.
Example consider the following program:
void main()
{
int a[10];
a[15]=65;
printf("%d",&a[15]);
}
when we compile this code we get some garbage value it just simply crash the values,based on the type of compiler the garbage value may vary.

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neelam kyatam  (7 years ago)

2: the complier would report an error

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VIMAL KUMBHAT  (5 years ago)

If the index of the array size is exceeded, the program will crash. Hence "option c" is the correct answer. But the modern compilers will take care of this kind of errors.

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vaishu  (7 years ago)

it provides a garbage value...probably it ll crash

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Vaidehi Singh Chandel  (7 years ago)

the program may crash

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DAISY DEVA PRIYA S  (6 years ago)

The compiler would report an error

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Harshit Gupta  (6 years ago)

1.)The element will be set to 0.

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Shreya  (6 years ago)

3) the program may crash if some important data gets overwritten.

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pooja raj  (6 years ago)

the program may crash if some important data gets overwritten

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RAKESH KUMAR  (5 years ago)

2 the complier would report an error

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ANKIT MANIK RODEKAR  (4 years ago)

The neighbour memory locations will be accessed and program may be crashed

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Abhilash Ch  (3 years ago)

3
3 OPTION IS THE ANS.

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