Stack overflow in Internet Explorer

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Stack overflow in Internet Explorer

Yesterday I came across an error which I was puzzled by and had a little laugh at.

I opened my website in Internet explorer (I use chrome 99% of the time) and got a "Stack Overflow" error.

I was just wondering is this a bad thing because when I open it in chrome or firefox it loads fine. Also does this happen to anyone else?

the website is, www.illstudylater.com

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It's only bad if any of your users will be using Internet Explorer. So yes.

recursive 2010-07-28 12:53:10

any suggestions on how one would fix it?from what i read it basicaly means the scripts too heavy

Simon 2010-07-28 12:55:03

It means that you have runaway recursion with no base case. Nothing to do with "heaviness". In all your recursive functions, make sure you have a base case that will be reached in a reasonable amount of call depth.

recursive 2010-07-28 12:59:48

ahh, my mistake

Simon 2010-07-28 13:02:00

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_overflow

In software, a stack overflow occurs when too much memory is used on the call stack. The call stack contains a limited amount of memory, often determined at the start of the program. The size of the call stack depends on many factors, including the programming language, machine architecture, multi-threading, and amount of available memory. When too much memory is used on the call stack the stack is said to overflow, typically resulting in a program crash. This class of software bug is usually caused by one of two types of programming errors.

Infinite recursion

Very large stack variables

When this error is thrown, recursion is the more popular reason.

I've tried the site in IE8 without problems, so perhaps it is an old version of IE causing a problem.

amelvin 2010-07-28 13:05:08

yea, what i got from that and from what i asked someone at my uni, i got the idea that it basically ment your php script was shit and slow. So long as its working on other peoples im fine with that. i'll try reinstalling IE8 and java and hopefully that will fix it.

Simon 2010-07-28 13:11:30

Recursion is more common, but if the bug is browser dependent then it seems more likely that an IE memory leak caused by your handling of stack variables in PHP. Perhaps the memory leak was later fixed in IE8?

amelvin 2010-07-28 17:09:48

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