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  1. Aug 25, 2008 · Stack overflow occurs when your program uses up the entire stack. The most common way this happens is when your program has a recursive function which calls itself forever. Every new call to the recursive function takes more stack until eventually your program uses up the entire stack.

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  2. What is stack overflow? A stack overflow is a type of buffer overflow error that occurs when a computer program tries to use more memory space in the call stack than has been allocated to that stack. The call stack, also referred to as the stack segment, is a fixed-sized buffer that stores local function variables and return address data during ...

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    • Prashanth Chandrasekar
    • Prosus
    • 15 September 2008; 15 years ago
  4. Sep 18, 2018 · What Does Stack Overflow Mean? A stack overflow is a runtime error that happens when a program runs out of memory in the call stack. The stack overflow generally signals a problem in resource provisioning and has to be fixed in order to allow the program to run and use memory properly.

  5. Aug 31, 2021 · Stack overflow is an error in programming that a user-mode thread encounters when attempting to write more data but the memory block is running out of space to hold it. There are two types of overflow errors: the first one can immediately cause the program to crash.

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  7. A stack is a linear data structure that follows the Last-In-First-Out (LIFO) principle. It consists of two main operations: push and pop. The push operation adds an element to the top of the stack, while the pop operation removes the topmost element from the stack.

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