What is runtime errors in the programming?

**Level8** · 12-12-2009

Hi Friends,

I am new in the programming field. I am not aware about the runtime error. Whenever I try to run some particular program code ,program gets terminate in middle of the program execution. somebody told me that it is runtime error.
Anybody knows What is runtime errors in the programming? I am waiting fro your reply.

**Praetor** · 12-12-2009

Basically there are two type of the errors which is as follows:
Runtime errors:
This type of the error occurred while the program execution. This type of the errors are occurred because of the coding logic problem. Example:If the value you are assigning to the variable is greater than the size of the data type then you will get the syntax error.

Compile time errors:
This type of the error occurred while the program compilation. This type of the errors are occurred because of the syntax errors.

**Katty** · 12-12-2009

Hellow,

If you are getting runtime error then it must be one of the following:
1. Out of memory exception.
2. Unexpected exception.
3. You can re-thrown exception only within a handler
4. Stack overflow.
5. Memory out of bound exception.

**kelfro** · 12-12-2009

Hi,

Mainly in the programming you will get tree type of the errors i.e Runtime error, Logic error, and compile time errors. You will get the runtime error only when you are executing the program code.
Mostly because of the syntax and coding errors you may get the compile time errors. If you have used the one loop in the program , and while running this program if this loop goes into the indefinite looping then it is referred as logic error.

**Zecho** · 12-12-2009

Hello,

Suppose you have the one expression such as:

ABC = PQR / XYZ ; // ABC, PQR, and XYZ are variable

If the you have assigned the zero value for the variable "XYZ" . And if you run this program you will definitely get the runtime error for this.
The runtime errors are occurs when you try to make impossible arithmetic operations.

**Reegan** · 12-12-2009

Hi,

The runtime error are unexpected in the program. We are not able to predict when our coding logic goes fails. By using compiler we can find outs the compiler error but there is no tool to identify the runtime errors before they occur.
If you want to aware about the different runtime errors then please visit to below link:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/805...4mg8077?a=view