Thread: stackoverflow

This might be a very basic question but still I am not able to figure out why is the foll code giving stackoverflow exception in main??

public class HelloWorld{
     public static void main(String []args)
     {
        System.out.println("Hello World");
        Animal c = new Animal();
     }
} 
class Animal
{
Animal e = new Animal();
}

Originally Posted by Norm

class Animal
{
   Animal e = new Animal();
}

Looks like a recursive call. Each new Animal creates another new Animal which creates another etc until stack is full.

Thank you sir actually I sort of knew the reason but was not sure..