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stack overflow

Using more stack than the program has.

A stack overflow happens when frames need more room than the fixed-size stack has; Rust aborts the program.

Examples

  • fn f(n: u64) -> u64 { f(n + 1) + 1 } has no base case, so it keeps pushing frames until the program aborts with a stack overflow message.

See also

stack recursion stack frame
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