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Hilton - 23 Dec 2007 07:54 GMT

Hi,

A couple of my customers have reported "StackOverflowException" - no stack
trace, cannot reproduce, outa luck. I gave myself 30 minutes and wrote some
code which found two methods in my EXE that had recursion; in both cases I
had called "this.XYZ" instead of "base.XYZ" in a "get".

I'd be happy to make the EXE available. Warning, it was written in under an
hour, not my best creation; i.e. it might not catch all recursion, hardly
tested at all, but it might help you - it sure as hell helped me. Let me
know if anyone is interested. Also, it there is any/sufficient interest,
I'd be happy to expand the functionality of it and fix bugs etc (within
reason :)).

Hilton

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joker - 23 Dec 2007 13:46 GMT

That's interesting.

I've actually recently observed a condition where I had a method that
was overloaded. For example.

private void DoSomething(object o)
{
if (o is bool)
{
DoSomething((bool)o);
}
}

private void DoSomething(bool b)
{
// do all the work in this method.
}

This actually "sometimes" resulted in recursion. (I typed the above
code from memory, so if it isn't completly correct forgive me). I had
to solve the issue by renaming the method that accepted the bool.

I might be interested in the source of your program, but I'm too
chicken to accept exe's

Thanks,

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Hilton - 23 Dec 2007 21:10 GMT

Hi,

In my case it was the simple case of "return this.Bla" instead of "return
base.Bla"

Hilton

> That's interesting.
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> Thanks,

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