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  2. Off-by-one error - Wikipedia

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    The correct number of sections for a fence is n − 1 if the fence is a free-standing line segment bounded by a post at each of its ends (e.g., a fence between two passageway gaps), n if the fence forms one complete, free-standing loop (e.g., enclosure accessible by surmounting, such as a boxing ring), or n + 1 if posts do not occur at the ends ...

  3. Exit status - Wikipedia

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    On Unix-like systems these are equal to 0 and 1 respectively. [3] A C program may also use the exit() function specifying the integer status or exit macro as the first parameter. The return value from main is passed to the exit function, which for values zero, EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE may translate it to "an implementation defined form" of ...

  4. Halting problem - Wikipedia

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    This program is one of all the programs on which the halting function h is defined. The next step of the proof shows that h(e,e) will not have the same value as f(e,e). It follows from the definition of g that exactly one of the following two cases must hold: f(e,e) = 0 and so g(e) = 0. In this case program e halts on input e, so h(e,e) = 1.

  5. Termination analysis - Wikipedia

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    But because each method is only able to "see" some specific reasons for (non)termination, even through combination of such methods one cannot cover all possible reasons for (non)termination. [citation needed] Recursive functions and loops are equivalent in expression; any expression involving loops can be written using recursion, and vice versa.

  6. Halt and Catch Fire (computing) - Wikipedia

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    The Motorola 6800 microprocessor was the first for which an undocumented assembly mnemonic HCF became widely known. The operation codes (opcodes—the portions of the machine language instructions that specify an operation to be performed) hexadecimal 9D and DD were reported and given the unofficial mnemonic HCF in a December 1977 article by Gerry Wheeler in BYTE magazine on undocumented ...

  7. Signal (IPC) - Wikipedia

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    The raise(3) library function sends the specified signal to the current process. Exceptions such as division by zero, segmentation violation , and floating point exception will cause a core dump and terminate the program. The kernel can generate signals to notify processes of events.

  8. Exception handling (programming) - Wikipedia

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    Anders Hejlsberg describes two concerns with checked exceptions: [38] Versioning: A method may be declared to throw exceptions X and Y. In a later version of the code, one cannot throw exception Z from the method, because it would make the new code incompatible with the earlier uses.

  9. Null-terminated string - Wikipedia

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    At the time C (and the languages that it was derived from) was developed, memory was extremely limited, so using only one byte of overhead to store the length of a string was attractive. The only popular alternative at that time, usually called a "Pascal string" (a more modern term is " length-prefixed "), used a leading byte to store the ...