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Originally Posted by ****** Because when you have recursion there is no way for the compiler to know what the highest stack value will be. Recursion is when a function calls itself, so if a function can call itself forever your stack will grow forever.

But after increasing it enough with #pragma dynamic, the warning no longer shows - why can't the compiler just do this itself? I know it doesn't know how much memory is needed, but clearly at some point it thinks there's enough, because the warning goes away.