Call stack Questions

Accepted answer

I made a recursive method that adds one to a variable and waited until it crashed.

int tmp = 0;
private void recMethod()
{
tmp++;
recMethod();
}

If I remember correctly tmp was about 15000 or 25000.

Sam Hobbs16y ago

Local variables also use stack space. The stack can be used up much faster if there are a lot of local variables using the stack.

Hector Hugo Alpizar Cesena16y ago

Very impresive, you are the shit thanks a lot

Hector Hugo Alpizar Cesena16y ago

where did get that fact about the amount of calls?

Roy S16y ago

So you're afraid that an application might crash when it called too many function (so that the call stack overflows)? I would say that it's near impossible, the amount of calls visual studio supports (in the real deal it's even more) is in the tens of thousands.

If a recursive method gave a StackOverflowException there must be something wrong with the code but other than that it shouldn't happen.