That's correct and any of the various MS runtime libraries simply set it by default if you didn't. Thus this error[1] (in C) and this[2] (in VB). I remember th

That's correct and any of the various MS runtime libraries simply set it by default if you didn't. Thus this error[1] (in C) and this[2] (in VB). I remember these from pre-dotNet days but based on the second link it looks not much has changed in VB.net. [1]https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa264523(v=vs.60).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa264523(v=vs.60).a... [2]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/language-reference/error-messages/out-of-stack-space https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/languag...