Fatal exception error
In computing, a fatal error is an error which causes a program to abort - and thus may return the user to the operating system. When this happens, data that the program was processing may be lost. A fatal error occurs typically in any of these cases:
- An illegal instruction has been attempted
- Invalid data or code has been accessed
- The privilege level of an operation is invalid
- A program attempts to divide by zero. (Only for integers; with the IEEE floating point standard, this creates an infinity instead)
In some systems, such as Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, a fatal error causes the operating system to create a log entry or to save an image (core dump) of the process.
See also
External links
- What Are Fatal Exception Errors - Microsoft Knowledge Base
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