Maybe you’re wondering about this: These lines are known as the assembly function prologue. The first 2 instructions save the previous base pointer (ebp) and set EBP to point at that position on the stack (right below the return address). This sets up EBP as a frame pointer. The sub esp,12 line is saving space … Read more
esp is the stack pointer, ebp is/was for a stack frame so that when you entered a function ebp could get a copy of esp at that point, everything on the stack before that happens, return address, passed in parameters, etc and things that are global for that function (local variables) will now be a … Read more
What can cause a java.lang.StackOverflowError? The stack printout that I get is not very deep at all (only 5 methods).
A stack frame is a frame of data that gets pushed onto the stack. In the case of a call stack, a stack frame would represent a function call and its argument data. If I remember correctly, the function return address is pushed onto the stack first, then the arguments and space for local variables. … Read more
It means that somewhere in your code, you are calling a function which in turn calls another function and so forth, until you hit the call stack limit. This is almost always because of a recursive function with a base case that isn’t being met. Viewing the stack Consider this code… Here is the stack … Read more