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StackOverflowException without recursion or infinite loop?

Background I have a DataGridView control which I am using, and I added my handler below to the DataGridView.CellFormatting event so the values in some cells can be made more human-readable. This ...
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StackOverflowException caused by Recursion

I am currently writing a program to help write Lore. Every Book Object can be a parent and have children. Which means that every child can have children etc. into infinity. I was working on a ...
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how to deliberately trigger a StackOverflowException without using recursion?

I was told that every method has a stack the size of 1mb. So I assumed that initializing 256 integer values in one method will cause a StackOverflowException. I tried that in code, but no exception ...
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Flood fill recursive algorithm

I'm trying to make an algorithm that could fill an int array in c#. Basically, as the fill tool in MS Paint, I have a color and if I choose (x,y) coordinates in the array, it replaces all the ...
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Is there a way to check available stack size before recursive call? (C#)

For a C# AI program I use a recursive call to find the best next move (using a 30x30 Array to store the current board state). For each move I make, I want to see which of the possible moves I can make ...
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Suggestion for chkstk.asm stackoverflow exception in C++ with Visual Studio 2010

I am working with an implementation of merge sort. I am doing C++ Visual Studio 2010. But when I took a array of 300000 integers for timing, it is showing an unhandled stackoverflow exception and ...
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How to avoid this stackoverflow exception?

Here is the situation, I am developing a binary search tree and in each node of the tree I intend to store the height of its own for further balancing the tree during avl tree formation. Previously I ...
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StackOverflowException thrown on x64 systems; works properly on x86

this is just a "to be sure" question here. Are there any known special limitations/bugs on recursion / loops for the x64 systems in .NET 4? My case is pretty simple - a program runs fine on any x86 ...
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How to handle deep recursion when working with ArrayLists?

So earlier today I ran into an issue and now it's evening-time and all I've successfully done is identify the source of the issue. I have a bunch of nodes that make up a figure. These nodes can ...
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StackOverflowError with Recursion

Can anyone tell me why I am getting this error? It is really bugging me. What I am trying to do is find the sum of the expression 2^k +1 as k ranges from 1 through n. import java.util.*; public ...
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pagerank: how to resolve java.lang.StackOverflowError?

I'm trying to implement a pagerank algorithm with 1 million nodes as input. However, I've got this error. I'm quite sure it's because an open recursive call problem, from generateParamList(). I've ...
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why do i get java.lang.StackOverflowError here?

_The following program of the below question gives series of exceptions Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StackOverflowError at testing_package.Compute.factorial(Compute.java:105) I don't ...
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StackOverflowException on recursive anonymous functions

I'm trying to write a function to check whether a string is a palindrome, and using this example, I'm trying to reverse the string using a recursive anonymous function: static Boolean ...
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Stackoverflow Exception caused by property

I have a User class that has a property called Creator which is of type User (the user who created this user) public class User { public User() { UserName = ""; EmailAddress ...
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javascript recursive function: Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded

I have a recurent function that traverses a ul li nested hierarchy. It bubbles up from a certain node, until reaches the ul with class tree-0 (which is the root of the hierarchy). The function: ...
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stack overflow unless printf under recursion

This code below is the code for finding the determinant for 3x3 matrix (this code is intended for nxn matrix, but for the sample, I used 3x3), using recursive The result is working fine, but I wonder ...
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VB.NET My class properties ends up in Circular references and thus StackOverflow exception

I have 2 classess. Role and User like this Role Public Class Role Public Property RoleID As Integer Public Property CreatedBy As User Sub New() If Me.CreatedBy Is Nothing ...
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How to handle recursion?

A 2D array represent an image, each pixel has a color, this recursive function job is to transform a region of the same color (c) surrounding pixel (x,y) to a new color (newC).The function is working ...
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Recursive loop on List<> causing stackoverflow

I have a List<> of objects containing two strings and a DateTime. I want to build another list of the same objects containing only the last unique items using the two strings as keys and the ...
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java catching stack overflow, getting msg display and return issues

So I'm using this recursive method to calculate the product of two numbers by recursive addition. I know that big numbers overflow the stack and my intention is to catch the stack overflow exception ...
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Stackoverflow Exception in Recursion

Today I wanted to write a program that solves a sudoku. When my approach didn't quite work I resorted to a solution found here: http://www.heimetli.ch/ffh/simplifiedsudoku.html But for some reason, I ...
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How to solve this StackOverflowError in this bad recursion example?

I'm having a programming issue related to bad recursion and StackOverflowError. I've got this case in a separate thread: public void subscribe(final String channel) { try { // blocking ...
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solving stackoverflowException in a recursive method

I have written a method for my homework to compute all of the permutations of a array of integer numbers with recursion. ( I am trying to implement backtracking algorithm). but it cause ...
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c# How to handle Stackoverflow exception in recursive function

Hi I am making my web scraping tool, and I need to have a recursive function in milliseconds to view offer availability. But I can't handle the stackoverflow exception because i keep calling the ...
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Recursion with maze solver

The project is to code a maze solver in Java using recursion and a tree (I'm using my own linked list, not exactly sure if it's a tree but I don't mind that). The lecturer never explains anything, so ...
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Stack Over Flow Error When generating form dynamically in android

I have a class for creating all views dynamically from json.As follows class Widget{ public static View createEditText(Context ctx,String hint,String hint_color,String ...
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Stack overflows although there is enough memory available

In my class our teacher wanted us to write a quicksort algorithm in C which will work on an array of 10000 int. My friends and I have written the code as seen on pseudocode. It works okay when ...