Editing Stack overflow (section)

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In software, a '''stack overflow''' occurs if the [[call stack]] pointer exceeds the [[Stack (abstract data type)|stack]] bound. The call stack may consist of a limited amount of [[address space]], often determined at the start of the program. The size of the call stack depends on many factors, including the programming language, machine architecture, multi-threading, and amount of available memory. When a program attempts to use more space than is available on the call stack (that is, when it attempts to access memory beyond the call stack's bounds, which is essentially a [[buffer overflow]]), the stack is said to ''overflow'', typically resulting in a program [[Crash (computing)|crash]].<ref name="fortran1">{{cite web
 |last        = Burley
 |first       = James Craig
 |title       = Using and Porting GNU Fortran
 |url         = http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Gnu/gcc-2.95.2/html_node/g77_597.html
 |date        = 1991-06-01
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120206112619/http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Gnu/gcc-2.95.2/html_node/g77_597.html
 |archive-date = 2012-02-06
 }}</ref>