January 7, 2009

When debugging a stack overflow, you want to focus on the repeating recursive part

January 7, 2009 Jan 7, 2009 01/7/09

Raymond Chen

When your program breaks into the debugger with a stack overflow, you will get a ridiculously huge stack trace because your program has gone into some sort of recursive death. (This is not a statement of metaphysical certitude, but it is true with very high probability.) But the place where the program crashed is usually not interesting at ...

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When debugging a stack overflow, you want to focus on the repeating recursive part