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Asked: 2026-05-24T19:39:48+00:00

I am writing a C program that uses lots of recursive functions. I am

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I am writing a C program that uses lots of recursive functions. I am also using a dynamic list to store some data while recursing. I implemented a Push function to push data into the list.

After several calls for the push function ” > 17,000 times” i am getting the following error:

Unhandled exception at 0x77963c47 in Prob – Cap CE.exe: 0xC00000FD: Stack overflow.
at return HeapAlloc(_crtheap, 0, size ? size : 1); that is called from stack->listNode = malloc(sizeof(struct Node)); in the Push function.

I opened task manager and identified that I still have lots of free memory. So I guess it is not a memory leak issue.

Is there any limitation on how much I can add to the list, or how many times I can call a function?

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  1. Editorial Team

    “>17,000 times” is not “several”. It’s bloody loads.

    You can’t expect your stack to hold 17,000 frames (and how much it can hold is implementation-dependent, and also depends on how much data is in each frame).

    Use iteration instead.

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