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In Java? Yes or no? Simple question, but I can't find a definitive answer anywhere. Most explanations of memory leaks I read only concern the heap, as if this cannot happen in the stack.
This is not answered by the "Creating a memory leak with Java" stack overflow question because that article makes no mention of whether stack overflow errors are considered a kind of memory leak.
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Stack overflow occurs when the pointer with which you're accessing the elements stored in a stack exceeds the stack's boundary . When it is accessing areas of memory outside the stack's allotted memory, it is termed stack overflow. However, memory leak is different .
Stack memory leaks occur when a method keeps getting called but never exits. This can happen if there is an infinite loop or if the method is being called with different data each time but the data is never used. Eventually, the stack will fill up and the program will run out of memory.
DEFINITION A memory leak is the gradual deterioration of system performance that occurs over time as the result of the fragmentation of a computer's RAM due to poorly designed or programmed applications that fail to free up memory segments when they are no longer needed.
Answer : Memory leaks means incomplete deallocation - are bugs that happen very often. Buffer overflow means data sent as input to the server that overflows the boundaries of the input area, thus causing the server to misbehave. Buffer overflows can be used.
A memory leak is a scenario that occurs when objects are no longer being used by the application. I think in the case of a recursive call, the objects are required at a later point. So I would not consider a stack overflow error a memory leak.
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"Memory leak", in brief, refers to the scenario that memory is allocated but not released even if it is no longer needed.
A stack overflow itself is NOT causing any unneeded memory to fail to be released. There is no reason that you can treat a stack overflow as a "memory leak".
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