stackoverflow error at the beginning of the program in function main

Question

I made a program, I want to debug it (or run) and before the first operator in function main it breaks with a message: Unhandled exception at 0x0020f677 in name.exe: Stack overflow. Why is this happening and how to resolve the problem? Visual C++ 2010, Win32 console application.

EDIT1: Debugger shows me the asm code at chkstk.asm.

What is important to analyse in order to solve this problem? Something added in header files is causing this problem?

Answer 1

If you decleared a fixed size array and if its size is too much, you may have this error.

int fixedarray[1000000000];

Try to decrease the length or create it on the heap.

int * array = new int[1000000000];

Do not forget to delete it later.

delete[] array;

But it is better to use std::vector instead of pointers even in a C function,

//...
int Old_C_Func(int * ptrs, unsigned len_);
//...
std::vector<int> intvec(1000000000);
int * intptr = &intvec[0];
int result = Old_C_Func(intptr,intvec.size());

assuming 32bit compilation.