Thread: interesting segmentation fault: why?

going through process of learning c, , thought interesting write program looped indefinitely, , recursively, this:

code:

#include <stdlib.h>    void hello() {       printf("hello");       //calls itself.       hello();  }    main() {       //launches hello() intially       hello();  }

now..obviously, loops indefinitely. doesn't. runs 10 seconds, expected (hellohellohellohello) segfaults. why? far can see, has accessed no memory shouldn't.

more of 'i can use, don't understand' question problem such.

happen in other compiled language?

1) real reason of segfault stack overflow.
2) printf buffered, , flushed after line breaks (or huge amount of characters).

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