Without using recursion how can a stack overflow exception be thrown?

Question

Without using recursion how can a stack overflow exception be thrown?

Answer 1

int main()
{
  //something on the stack
  int foo = 0;
  for (
    //pointer to an address on the stack
    int* p = &foo;
    //forever
    ;
    //ever lower on the stack (assuming that the stack grows downwards)
    --p)
  {
    //write to the stack
    *p = 42;
  }
}