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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Brad Johnson on June 30, 2010, 11:47:33 PM
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Just hopped on CNN to cruise the headlines and got this error...
"Stack Overflow At Line :0"
What the heck does that mean?
Brad
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It means you overflowed the stack, idjit! Don't do that! :mad:
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It means you broke the internet. Great going you jackwagon! (I've been waiting all day to use that!)
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When I would stack hay and it would start coming out the top. I think that was stack overflow. =D
But my body felt like this. :O :facepalm: =(
jim
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:facepalm:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_overflow
Not nearly as bad as when you divide by zero.
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Means you pushed too hard and some popped out.
This is going back a ways, so it may not be 100% correct. However, I think the concept is more or less right. Nevertheless, I'm sticking my neck out so that someone else can call me an idiot and give an appropriate answer.
Basically the stack is a limited amount of internal storage in the central processor (CPU chip) of a computer where items of information can be temporarily kept in order, i.e., in a "stack." These items may be intermediate results or other external memory addresses, or instructions to the Central Processor Unit itself in temporary storage. Access to this "stack" of information is very fast since the information is stored right there in the processor itself.
You can "push" an item into the stack for storage, or you can "pop" it out to operate on it --whether it's a memory address or an intermediate result in a calculation. If you push too many items into the stack, without popping some out, it results in "stack overflow." This can be a result of a couple of things, like dividing by zero.
"Push" and "pop" are actual assembly language commands. One too many pushes or one too few pops and the stack overflows.
A very, very, very long time ago I used to know the actual binary commands for push and pop for the Intel 8000 series of CPUs. Virtually useless knowledge nowadays anyhow.
Terry "with apologies," 230RN
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What web browser are you using?
I used to get that error a lot using Chrome trying to watch an online movie.
jim
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your mags are stacked to high, where did clinton's PA on how to stack mags go?
[popcorn]
now really (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_overflow)(just a different way of lookin' at it)
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Just hopped on CNN to cruise the headlines and got this error...
"Stack Overflow At Line :0"
What the heck does that mean?
Brad
[programmingSnob]
A metric TON of stuff is wrong with CNN's website, which appears to have been programmed by amateurs.
[/programmingSnob]
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That's when you're having pancakes and you get syrup on the plate. It's a good thing. =)
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You deserve a stack overflow just for reading CNN. :P
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:facepalm:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_overflow
Not nearly as bad as when you divide by zero.
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(http://OH SH-)
Shouldn't that say, "Oh, dam!" ?
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:facepalm:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_overflow
Not nearly as bad as when you divide by zero.
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The universe implodes. Even the ancients (once they discovered zero) knew that was a bad idea.
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230RN has the accurate description of the problem. I want to point out that if you saw this message in your browser window, it was likely an error that occurred in CNNs webserver, not in a the browser executable. I suppose it could have possibly been an error in a plugin or something like that as well. But it's probably not a problem with your computer.
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Stack Overflow
Sounds like a housekeeping problem to me ;)
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Sounds like a housekeeping problem to me
^ Sounds like a double intendre to me.
My mostest favoritest bestest computer joke:
There are only 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Oldie but goodie.
Terry, 230RN
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I thought stack overflow was when you put on too small a bra.
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It means you overflowed the stack, idjit! Don't do that! :mad:
Just jiggle the handle.......and keep the plunger handy....
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I thought stack overflow was when you put on too small a bra.
Stack envy.
Brad