Question

Which of these will happen if recursive method does not have a base case?

(a) An infinite loop occurs

(b) System stops the program after some time

(c) After 1000000 calls it will be automatically stopped

(d) None of the mentioned

The question was asked in a national level competition.

My question is based upon Recursion topic in portion Classes and Methods of Java

Answer 1

Correct answer is (a) An infinite loop occurs

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