Fatal exception error

Not to be confused with fatal system error.

In computing, a fatal error or fatal exception error is an error that causes a program to abort and may therefore return the user to the operating system. When this happens, data that the program was processing may be lost. A fatal error is usually distinguished from a fatal system error^[1]^[2] (colloquially referred to by the error message it produces as a "blue screen of death"). A fatal error occurs typically in any of the following cases:.

An illegal instruction has been attempted
Invalid data or code has been accessed
An operation is not allowed in the current ring or CPU mode
A program attempts to divide by zero. (Only for integers; with the IEEE floating point standard, this creates an infinity instead)

In some systems, such as Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, a fatal error causes the operating system to create a log entry or to save an image (core dump) of the process.

References

↑ "Fatal error". Webopedia.
↑ "Stop error". Webopedia.

External links

What Are Fatal Exception Errors – Microsoft Knowledge Base

Error messages

System failure	Bomb icon Fatal system error Guru Meditation Kernel panic Linux kernel oops Red Ring of Death Sad Mac Screen of death Blue Black Yellow Light of Death

Application failure	ABEND Fatal exception error Segmentation fault

Device and data errors	Can't extend HTTP 404 lp0 on fire Not a typewriter PC LOAD LETTER

Other	Abort, Retry, Fail? Bad command or file name Halt and Catch Fire HTTP 418 Out of memory

Lists	List of HTTP status codes List of FTP server return codes

Related	Kill screen Spinning pinwheel Windows wait cursor

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