Question

The exception generated for a too big result to fit in the format is

(a) invalid operation

(b) overflow

(c) denormalized operand

(d) result overflow

This question was posed to me in an internship interview.

This is a very interesting question from Numeric Processor 8087 -1 in chapter Multimicroprocessor Systems of Microprocessor

Answer 1

The correct answer is (b) overflow

Easiest explanation: A too big result to fit in the format generates this exception. The condition code bits indicate that the result is prohibitively large.