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[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that it’s something a long the lines of “stack begins high, grows down, while heap behind low grows high” when they meet, it’s a stack overflow

[–] shortrounddev@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

They don't have to meet, the max stack size is defined at compile time