error
An exception that indicates failure of a requested action or an illegal
specification. Errors can occur during compilation--during preprocessing of program
statements or during the linking stage--or during execution of the program. At
run time, some errors are fatal in that the program cannot continue execution
(run-time errors); others are recoverable in that the program can take corrective
action and continue execution. Rounding errors can occur during truncation in
rounding; overflow errors can occur during arithmetic operations in which the
size of the result is larger than the size of the space in which the result is
to be stored.
See also compile, error handling, exception, execute, link, status variable, truncation.