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| what is a special floating point value that cout uses to represents infinity? |
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| Where is the abort() prototype located? |
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| cstdlib (or stdlib.h) header file |
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| if abort() is called where does it send a to, what does it do, and what does it return? |
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sends: standard error stream (same as the one used by cerr)
Does: terminates the program
Return: implementation-dependent value that indicates failure to the OS, or it's parent process |
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| Memory areas used to store material for transfers to and from files |
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| What does get(void) return? |
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| usually returns ASCII code for the next input character, but returns EOF if it encounters the end-of-file |
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| A response to an exceptional circumstance that comes up while a program is running |
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| What do expections provide? |
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| a way to transfer control from one part of a program to another |
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| What are the three components on handling exceptions? |
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- Throwing an exception
- Catching an exception with a handler
- Using a try block |
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| What is a throw statement? |
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A jump.
It tells a program to jump to statements at another location |
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| What is the throw keyword followed by? |
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a value
such as a character string or an object, that indicates the nature of the exception |
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| Where is the exception handler? |
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| Where a program catches an exception, at the place in the program where you want to handle the problem |
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| What does the catch keyword indicate? |
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the catching of an exception.
Handler begins with keyword, followed by a type declaration (in parentheses), follow by {} to show what acts to take |
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| What is the exception handler also called? |
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| a block of code for which particular exceptions will be activated. |
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| What are try blocks followed by? |
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one or more catch blocks
try {...}
catch(whatever) {...} |
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| What does the continue statement do? |
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| Causes the program to skip the rest of the while loop and jump to its beginning again |
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| What is an exception specification? |
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indicates which kinds of exceptions it throws by appending the exception specification (throw)
Exp:
double hmean(double a, double b) throw(bad_hmean); |
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| What does the following indicate about the its throw? double multi_err(double z) throw(const char*, double); |
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| double simple(double z) throw(); how many exceptions does it throw? |
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