Re: Stack Overflow

From:
"Jacky Luk" <jl@knight.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:38:40 +0800
Message-ID:
<O6SbAfRwGHA.4868@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>
I've found the cause - too many recursive calls to a function. So if I am to
preserve the original structure of the program, how to set parameters for
adjustments?
Thanks
Jack

"Bruno van Dooren [MVP VC++]" <bruno_nos_pam_van_dooren@hotmail.com> ???g???l???s?D:%23wHdnURwGHA.3508@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

AFX_INLINE POSITION CList<TYPE, ARG_TYPE>::GetHeadPosition() const
{ return (POSITION) m_pNodeHead; }

I am testing someone else's program.
It crashed on this line saying stack overflow
Simply m_pNodeHead == 0xcccccccc
I wonder if I have reached the maximum stack size allowed on STL? any


First-chance exception at 0x100480a9 (test2.dll) in testmain.exe:
0xC00000FD: Stack overflow.
Unhandled exception at 0x100480a9 (test2.dll) in testmain.exe:
0xC00000FD: Stack overflow.


prime candidates for your problem:
- you have an infinite recursion loop somewhere.
- you have a very small custom stack size.
- you are using very large local variables like arrays, eating up valuable
stack space.

Btw, CList is MFC, not STL. I do not know enough of MFC to comment, but
with STL, the data itself is placed on the heap, not the stack. I imagine
that this is the case with CList as well.

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