This question already has answers here: What is a StackOverflowError? (15 answers) Closed 6 years ago. I’ve looked everywhere and can’t find a solid answer. According to the documentation, Java throws a java.lang.StackOverflowError error under the following circumstance: Thrown when a stack overflow occurs because an application recurses too deeply. But this raises two questions: … Read more
I have the following piece of code which fails with the following error: RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded I attempted to rewrite this to allow for tail recursion optimization (TCO). I believe that this code should have been successful if a TCO had taken place. def trisum(n, csum): if n == 0: return csum else: … Read more
Take a look at the following two methods: public static void foo() { try { foo(); } finally { foo(); } } public static void bar() { bar(); } Running bar() clearly results in a StackOverflowError, but running foo() does not (the program just seems to run indefinitely). Why is that? 6 Answers 6
What is a StackOverflowError, what causes it, and how should I deal with them? 15 s 15 Parameters and local variables are allocated on the stack (with reference types, the object lives on the heap and a variable in the stack references that object on the heap). The stack typically lives at the upper end … Read more
What is a StackOverflowError?
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.StackOverflowError
