Limited recursion in C?

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Published on 2011-06-24T20:15:40Z Indexed on 2011/06/25 0:22 UTC
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I ran this program and it output

...

65088
65089
65090

and then it stopped. Windows 7 said a.exe stopped working. Here is the code:

#include <stdio.h>

void go(void);

main()
{
    go();
}

void go(void)
{
    static int i = 0;
    printf("%d\n", i++);
    go();
}

I think this program should keep on printing numbers indefinitely due to recursion, but it stops at 65090! The C code is compiled with gcc. Any ideas?

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