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Troubleshooting Exceptions: System.StackOverflowException 

A StackOverflowException exception is thrown when the execution stack overflows by having too many nested method calls.

Associated Tips

  • Make sure you do not have an infinite loop or infinite recursion.
    Too many method calls is often indicative of a very deep or unbounded recursion.

Remarks

You cannot catch stack overflow exceptions, because the exception-handling code may require the stack. Instead, when a stack overflow occurs in a normal application, the Common Language Runtime (CLR) terminates the process.

An application that hosts the CLR can change the default behavior and specify that the CLR unload the application ___domain where the exception occurs, but lets the process continue. For more information, see ICLRPolicyManager and Hosting the Common Language Runtime.

See Also

Tasks

How to: Find Out More About an Exception with the Exception Assistant

Reference

Visual J# Exception Handling for the Debugger
Visual J# Exception Hierarchies
StackOverflowException

Concepts

Loop Structures