Stack Overflow Event
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A Stack Overflow Event is a software event that ...
- See: Buffer Overflow, Call Stack, Stack (Abstract Data Type), Address Space, Stack Overflow Service.
References
2018
- (Wikipedia, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_overflow Retrieved:2018-8-8.
- In software, a stack overflow occurs if the call stack pointer exceeds the stack bound. The call stack may consist of a limited amount of address space, often determined at the start of the program. The size of the call stack depends on many factors, including the programming language, machine architecture, multi-threading, and amount of available memory. When a program attempts to use more space than is available on the call stack (that is, when it attempts to access memory beyond the call stack's bounds, which is essentially a buffer overflow), the stack is said to overflow, typically resulting in a program crash.