StackOverflowException

Question

With the StackOverflowException are the conditions to be thrown hardcoded or dependent on the machine the code is running on?

I am almost certain the latter but have failed in my searches and don't ask enough questions here.

Answer 1

From the documentation:

... is thrown when the execution stack overflows because it contains too many nested method calls.

Since the size of the stack is architecture-dependent and can even be overridden on a machine, yes, this value is not hard-coded, though it is generally pretty static on Windows. If I remember correctly, it is 1MB in size by default.

Answer 2

Although not a perfect match for your question, see also:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1042345/how-do-you-change-default-stack-size-for-managed-executable-net