Stack overflow caused by recursive function

Question

I\'m a beginner in C++. Yesterday I read about recursive functions, so I decided to write my own. Here\'s what I wrote:

int returnZero(int anyNumber) {
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Answer 1

My guess is you stack is exactly big enough to fit 4792 entries - today. Tomorrow or the next, that number might be different. Recursive programming can be dangerous and this example illistrates why. We try not to let recursion get this deep or 'bad' things can happen.