Question

How the stack frame errors are caused?

(a) stack overflow

(b) underrun

(c) overrun

(d) timing

The question was posed to me in a national level competition.

Enquiry is from Buffer Memory topic in portion Buffering and other Data Structures of Embedded Systems

Answer 1

Correct choice is (a) stack overflow

The explanation is: There are certain common errors called the stack frame errors which are responsible for the memory leakage and it is due to the stack overflowing of its allocated memory space and the system call function failure.