Question

If an exception is raised and the succeeding instructions are executed completely, then the processor is said to have ______

(a) Exception handling

(b) Imprecise exceptions

(c) Error correction

(d) None of the mentioned

This question was posed to me by my school principal while I was bunking the class.

I need to ask this question from Superscalar Processors topic in section Arithmetic of Computer Architecture

Answer 1

Right answer is (b) Imprecise exceptions

For explanation: The processor since as executed the following instructions even though an exception was raised, hence the exception is treated as imprecise.