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Cuckoo Hashing Collisions lead to overflow

I'm trying to implement cuckoo hashing with hash functions: hash1: key.hashcode() % capacity hash2: key.hashcode() / capacity % capacity With an infinite loop check and rehashing method doubling ...
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What Is Difference Hold And Closed Questions In StackOverFlow [migrated]

Can we edit our closed questions ? If we edit question well then is question reopened by Stackoverflow community. And i read 'Help Center'. And then i learnt 'closed' and 'hold' questions have the ...
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Stackoverflow exception in C# while splaying a node in the tree

I have implemented a Splay tree which is properly working with the small set of data. But when more data is used, I get an StackOverflowException. I'm using a recursive approach for splaying tree. ...
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C# Entity Framework - Stack Overflow when inserting data into child table

I am brand new to C# and Entity Framework. I have been used these tutorials and StackOverflow to give me a better understanding. ...
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Why this code throws java.lang.StackOverflowError

Why this code doesn't execute fine. It throws java.lang.StackOverflowError. I want to know the behavior of the class. public class A { A a = new A(); public static void main(String[] args) { A a ...
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Cannot evaluate expression because the current thread is in a stack overflow state In EF Context

Last night everything was working fine and I woke up this morning to continue working on the project and I am now getting this error Cannot evaluate expression because the current thread is in a ...
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How can I create a new StackOverflow tag without first posting? [migrated]

Is there a way to create a new tag before posting a question that uses that tag? I was trying to setup an IFTTT recipe for a non-existent tag so that I can receive any questions marked with that tag ...
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Java list permutation stackoverflow

I am making a program that generates all the subsets of a list and then permutes all those subsets. I have a method for generating subsets and a method for generating permutations . However, they do ...
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Scala recursion depth differences and StackOverflowError below allowed depth

The following program was written to check how deep recursion in Scala can go deep on my machine. I assume that it mostly depends on stack's size assigned to this program. However, after calculating ...
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Why does my recursive function in C cause a stack overflow?

I'm trying to make a function calculating x to the power n (where x could be a double, n must be an int). A recursive algorithm would be this one, but implementing it in C gave me the stack-overflow ...
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Decoding LinkedList implementation

Just to understand the implementation, operation etc., I copied LinkedList class from JDK and modified in non-generic(String only) way. Relevant to the question, here's addLast() public void ...
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Stackoverflow exception with @ToString annotation in test

I'm using a MongoDB database in a Grails 3 application and I'm having some issues while doing some unitary tests. This is my domain class @ToString(includeFields = true, includeNames = true, ...
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How to stop the stack from overflowing when generating permutations in python

I'm trying to generate permutations in python without using itertools. This is my code thus far: def generatePermutations(minVal, maxVal, arrayLength, depth = -1, array = []): if(depth == -1): # ...
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how to add Profile picture in my stackoverflow profile? [migrated]

I have created a profile in stackoverflow recently. But my profile is showing a blank-avatar. How can I add my pic to the profile? Thanks in advance
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Getting stack overflow error on one machine but not the other on the same code

I'm trying to implement a certain puzzle solver in Java given an initial state and certain goal specifications. For various reasons, I cannot share the actual code, and that likely doesn't matter ...
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Quick Sort stackoverflow error for large arrays

So I was assigned to implement a quick sort algorithm and compare the running times for arrays with size 500, 3500, and 80000. The arrays are populated with random numbers: ...
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Stack Overflow error with Vectors

I have the following code which causes stack overflow. I don't know why. None of the values I used is out of boundaries when exception occurs. It is called as this Contour_Depth_Search(0, tmp, 0); ...
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Show more comments button has broken [migrated]

When clicking Show More Comments, the browser window gets pulled down to the active comment. I wonder if this is just a temporary bug everyone's aware of or it's worth mentioning. Maybe others have a ...
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What will happen when John Skeet reaches 1 mln points [migrated]

or better yet: round 1048576 points? Is StackOverflow ready to handle this? And more seriously: I noticed that several top SO users (e.g. John Skeet) have their bronze medal count truncated in their ...
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Stack overflow in C++ destructor

I try to create the detor and got a "Stack Overflow" I know why but I want that its work... #include <iostream> #include "printTreeToFile.h" #include "BSNode.h" #define _BS BSNode:: #define ...
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Avoiding stack overflow when recursively adding numbers

I have a recursive function that adds a value number on the first recursive call, adds number-1 on the second recursive call, and so on until it reaches 0. I have implemented this function as: public ...
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Two classes, same code, one gets StackOverflow

I'm in a project that does DFS recursively over a graph. The issue is that I have the exact same code in two different classes (with different names) and while one manages to do the recursion ...
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Why does this BigInteger value cause a stack overflow exception? C#

I am using BigInteger in C# in connection with the factorial function. The program has a lightning fast calculation of 5000!, but has an overflow error at 10000!. According to wolfram alpha, 10000! ...
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I'm making a Console Application Game (C#), and I'm running into Stack Overflow Error. How to avoid?

My game has multiple methods for each state of the game and these methods call each other where applicable. This is causing a Stack Overflow Error after a while. Is there any way to avoid this, ...
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Generating a list causes a stack overflow

I'm generating a list of random numbers: let gen n = let rec pom l n = match n with | 0 -> l | _ -> let el = Random.int 20000000 in pom ...
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How to fix stackOverFlow error

The program works fine at first, but after the sixth turn, it returns a stackOverFlow error. I cannot make the program work unless the play method calls itself until either the user or the computer ...
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Quicksort - Worst case results in stack overflow?

I'm trying to implement the quick sort algorithm, where i choose the pivot to be the rightmost element.. However, when the array of ~4000 elements already is sorted, stack overflow occurs. This is my ...
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scalaz.State stack overflow in deep monadic loop

I'm experimenting with different implementation of Depth-First Search with scalaz. This traverse should handle wide along with deep tree-like structures. Main idea - subordinate elements should be ...
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How many number of string an arraylist can hold?

I am trying to write a web crawler. when I am going through a large page my arraylist variable is not able to hold all the data. It is throwing below exception. Exception in thread "Thread-0" ...
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Stack overflow when I implement Quicksort method

Hello I am trying to implement Quicksort method in Java, but for some reason I am getting a stack overflow error when I am doing as little as 5 elements! Any ideas what could be wrong? Part of my ...
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Stack_Overflow_error while calling mergeSort method

I’ve been doing this problem: I created one file which takes random numbers and I stored those numbers in a SinglyLinkedList data structure and I'd like to perform a mergeSort to sort these random ...
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How could you increase the maximum recursion depth in Python? [duplicate]

Interesting topic of recursion and stack overflow in class today and I wondered if there is any way of increasing the maximum recursion depth in Python? Wrote a quick function for finding the ...
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Prevent StackOverflowException in Property-Definition in .Net

In my class a 'Sub Process' is responsible to produce some values in a property (list(of integer)). This sub process should always be called when the value of the property is got. MustInherit Class ...
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Stackoverflow in Pentaho

I have an issue that I can't seem to resolve. I have a job (A) that calls another job (B). Iteration takes place in job B. There is a loop inside job B which reads one row at a time from a source file ...
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Quicksort Lomuto & Hoare. Stackoverflow exception in Partition function

Welcome, I have to code Quicksort Lomuto and Hoare variation in C++ using MinGW. So, I have done it. Algorithms works fine for arrays[N] where N is small number like 5, 20, 100 but I need to do it ...
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How to implement the execution of a language that I am writing?

I am writing my own programming language using C# just for fun. It's called SPL. It has only 12 keywords/commands/instructions and nothing more. I know exactly what each command is going to do. This ...
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Use netcat and write to stdin for remote shell

I am exploiting a buffer overflow vulnerability (for university) on a running server and I am able to redirect the process to exec a shell. My exploit looks like this: perl -e 'print ...
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How does this machine code prevent buffer-overrun?

Following's are part of three different .s files. The .c file has been compiled with three different options: -fno-inline -fstack-protector-strong, -fno-inline -fsanitize=address, -fno-inline ...
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Cannot increase stack size Visual Studio 2013 C#

I am using Visual Studio 2013 Community version to write a C# project. My program parses HTML using HtmlAgilityPack and raises a stack overflow exception. I've been trying to change the stack size ...
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asp.net program crashes randomly

(Solved) Refer to end of this post This program is expected to work just fine. why? because it's already doing the same thing 10-15 lines above with no problem and yet it gives random crashes. ...
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Merge sort java.lang.StackOverflowError

I am working on a project for school and things are going well until i tried to perform a merge sort on my ArrayList. It will run but then it errors out. The first error of many is Exception in thread ...
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BinaryTree count leaves infinite loof

I wrote countLeaf method in my binary tree class to count every leaves from root. However, it gave me stack overflow error, but I couldn't figure what I did wrong. this is the countLeaf class from ...
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Stack overFlow error with MotionEvent android

From morning i trying to figure out whats causing this issue, added below in the Log cat. Its happening when i scroll and click(simultaneously) the button on the Dialog that is displayed(added a image ...
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Will owner of post can view its revisions after it's deleted? [migrated]

Here's scenario: I first create a post on stackoverflow, and then do some edit on the post. Then I delete the post. Will I able to see its revision now?
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Exploit Development - Shellcode Doesn't Work?

I am following corelan.be/index.php/2009/07/19/exploit-writing-tutorial-part-1-stack-based-overflows/ to reproduce the exploit. Firstly, I found the position of EIP was after the 26089 As (at ...
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Stack Overflow Error caused by Method Call

I am trying to fix this error so that I can start my program with 4 instances in my list "school" that I declare internally. Then I want to allow the user to manipulate the list as they wish. ...
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Calling non static inside static main C#

I'm new to C# and programming all together and am trying to get this to run. I have spent the entire day reading about Static and non Static and cant seem to get it right. Any and all help would be ...
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I am trying to write a recursive function in c++ and it keeps causing a stack overflow

So i am trying to write a recursive function to count all of the spaces on a grid of characters. It is for a project in which i have to write a program that calculates the score of a simplified game ...
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Can't handle StackOverflowException C# [duplicate]

I don't know why I can't handle this exception that is caused by that code: private void checkedListBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) { try { ...
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stackoverflow with dllimport from IIS

Scenario I made a Wrapper class for a C dll so I can call its functions from managed code and I can access them from a c# WCF Service. Everyting seems fine, but when allocating a lot of memory in the ...