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.

• 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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• 2: the complier would report an error
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• 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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• it provides a garbage value...probably it ll crash
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• the program may crash
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• The compiler would report an error
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• 1.)The element will be set to 0.
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• 3) the program may crash if some important data gets overwritten.
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• the program may crash if some important data gets overwritten
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• 2 the complier would report an error
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• The neighbour memory locations will be accessed and program may be crashed
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• 3
  3 OPTION IS THE ANS.
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