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Which of the following is the correct description of the macro SIGFPE?

(a) erroneous arithmetic operation such as zero divide

(b) invalid access to storage

(c) termination request sent to the program

(d) receipt of the interactive attention signal

The question was asked in an interview for internship.

My query is from Signal Handling in division C Library of C

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The correct answer is (a) erroneous arithmetic operation such as zero divide

To explain I would say: SIGFPE is the macro defined under the header file signal.h which is an erroneous arithmetic operation such as zero divide, or operation resulting in overflow.

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