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Stack overflow (disambiguation)

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Stack overflow may mean:

A type of programming error:

  • Stack overflow, when too much memory is used on the call stack
  • Stack buffer overflow, when a program writes to a memory address on the program's call stack outside of the intended data structure; usually a fixed length buffer
  • Stack Overflow (website), a question-and-answer website on the topic of computer programming