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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

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