B A T C H R E C U R S I O N exceeds STACK limits

[SirJosh3917]

Hi, I recently got this message printed to me - is this documented anywhere? is this known?



This message I did not write:

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******  B A T C H   R E C U R S I O N  exceeds STACK limits ******
Recursion Count=593, Stack Usage=90 percent
******       B A T C H   PROCESSING IS   A B O R T E D      ******

[ShadowThief]

This happens when you've got setlocal in a loop somewehere. According to that error message, your script ran setlocal without endlocal 593 times.

[jeb]

Hi,

the error is not related to setlocal, but to the call stack.
Probably you have a recursion in your code, like

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:recursion
call :recursion

[Looge]

Batch recursion can be caused by various means, but essentially you ...

... well, have a batch recursion. Somewhere.

I occasionally hit that problem, and in my case it always is this:
I have a big collection of scripts, and a very limited set of them are scripts that called by others, but do not do many calls on themselves.
These are sort of small but essential basic scripts, that are often called in the start of a lot of other "normal" scripts.
If then I make a change in such a special script, calling another script, I end up calling a regular script, that starts with calling the script that was the caller in the first place.
And yes, if the call is unconditional ... that's how I create batch recursions.