Is there any limit on stack memory?

Question

I was going through one of the threads. A program crashed because it had declared an array of 10^6 locally inside a function.

Reason being given was memory allocatio

Answer 1

Yes, there is a limit on stack size in most languages. For example, in C/C++, if you have an improperly written recursive function (e.g. incorrect base case), you will overflow the stack. This is because, ignoring tail recursion, each call to a function creates a new stack frame that takes up space on the stack. Do this enough, and you will run out of space.

Running this C program on Windows (VS2008)...

void main()
{
    main();
}

...results in a stack overflow:

Unhandled exception at 0x004113a9 in Stack.exe: 0xC00000FD: Stack overflow.