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Without using recursion how can a stack overflow exception be thrown?
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However, some compilers implement tail-call optimization, allowing infinite recursion of a specific sort—tail recursion—to occur without stack overflow. This works because tail-recursion calls do not take up additional stack space.
In order to prevent stack overflow bugs, you must have a base case where the function stops make new recursive calls. If there is no base case then the function calls will never stop and eventually a stack overflow will occur.
StackOverflowException is thrown for execution stack overflow errors, typically in case of a very deep or unbounded recursion. So make sure your code doesn't have an infinite loop or infinite recursion. StackOverflowException uses the HRESULT COR_E_STACKOVERFLOW, which has the value 0x800703E9.
Since no one else has mentioned it:
throw new System.StackOverflowException();
You might do this when testing or doing fault-injection.
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