What is the difference between compile time error and run time error?

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Compile error is the error when you check for syntax error while run time error comes when you do execution of the program.
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Errors which occur at the time of compilation are compile time errors and errors which occur at runtime are runtime errors. Example like syntax errors are all compile time errors. where as logical errors or out of memory, network error,etc occurs at the time of running the program file.
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Suppose say you are working on Linux and use are using gcc to compile. Whatever error you get when you execute gcc Sample.c, they are compile time errors. Whatever error you get when you execute ./a.out, they are run time errors.
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Compile Time Errors - Errors that were caught during compilation of the program are called as Compile Time Errors. Mostly Language Syntax Errors & Semantic Errors will be caught as Compile Time Errors. Run Time Errors - Errors that were caught during the execution of the program are called as Run...
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Compile Time Errors - Errors that were caught during compilation of the program are called as Compile Time Errors. Mostly Language Syntax Errors & Semantic Errors will be caught as Compile Time Errors. Run Time Errors - Errors that were caught during the execution of the program are called as Run Time Errors. Logical Errors like integer divided by Zero will be caught during this Run Time as this kind of error cant be caught during compile time. read less
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As rightly said by Avinash and Vinod the compile time error is the error at compile time. Syntactic error. Consider it as grammatical error (grammer of a compiler). Run time error is the memory related error or some undefined behavior. Consider you allocated a character array of 20 bytes to store your...
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As rightly said by Avinash and Vinod the compile time error is the error at compile time. Syntactic error. Consider it as grammatical error (grammer of a compiler). Run time error is the memory related error or some undefined behavior. Consider you allocated a character array of 20 bytes to store your name. No issues with the statement so no compile time error. But now let us you try to store 25 bytes name on that, it may produce run time error. read less
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Simply we can that compile time error occurs during the compilation of a program where as run time error occurs during execution of a program
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