Re: Stack Overflow

Hello, Eric!

EW> The code almost completes when it throws a stack overflow exception.
EW> The code makes no recursive calls. I suspect the data is coming through
EW> faster than the app can process it, and events keep piling up until the
EW> stack overflows. Is that possible?

If I understand correctly data is stored in the buffer.
Then taken from that buffer and processed, right?

Then data is piling up in the heap not in the stack...

Can you provide code sample where you process data?
When exception occured - did you look at callstack?

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