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I would really recommend trying to write a little C program that deliberately causes a stack overflow. It is completely harmless and is good fun if you've never encountered this kind of low-level systems code before.

It's also pretty fun to try asking for weird amounts of memory with 'malloc' or seeing how many times you can ask the OS for no memory before something fails. You might need to force-reboot your computer after that though!




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