What's the shortest code to cause a stack overflow? [closed]

Answer 1

Person JeffAtwood;
Person JoelSpolsky;
JeffAtwood.TalkTo(JoelSpolsky);

Here's hoping for no tail recursion!

Answer 2

xor esp, esp
ret

Answer 3

My current best (in x86 assembly) is:

push eax
jmp short $-1

which results in 3 bytes of object code (50 EB FD). For 16-bit code, this is also possible:

call $

which also results in 3 bytes (E8 FD FF).

Answer 4

C#:

public int Foo { get { return Foo; } }

Answer 5

Groovy:

main()

$ groovy stack.groovy:

Caught: java.lang.StackOverflowError
    at stack.main(stack.groovy)
    at stack.run(stack.groovy:1)
 ...

Answer 6

try and put more than 4 patties on a single burger. stack overflow.