Represents the error that occurs when the execution stack overflows due to too many method calls. [Edit]

See Also: StackOverflowException Members

System.Object
     System.Exception
          System.SystemException
               System.StackOverflowException

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComVisible(true)] public sealed class StackOverflowException : SystemException

Thread Safety

All public static members of this type are safe for multithreaded operations. No instance members are guaranteed to be thread safe.

Remarks

Note:

StackOverflowException is thrown for execution stack overflow errors, typically in the case of a very deep or unbounded recursion.

The localloc CIL instruction throws StackOverflowException.

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Example

The following example demonstrates an error that causes a StackOverflowException exception.

C# Example

using System; public class StackOverflowExample { public static void recursion() { recursion(); } public static void Main() { try { recursion(); } catch(StackOverflowException e) { Console.WriteLine("Error caught: {0}", e); } } }

The output is

Error caught: System.StackOverflowException: Exception of type System.StackOverflowException was thrown.

Requirements

Namespace: System
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0