recursive function causes matab to crash

I increased the recursion using set parameter but the recursive function cause matlab to crash using different input parameters. All the variables are defined as global to reduce data duplication in memory. Can any body help me to solve this issue?

[James Tursa]

We need to see your code. Define "crash" ... what actually happens exactly?

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

In earlier releases of MATLAB (I tried this in release R2014b) the error you received when you tried to perform recursion too many levels deep was:

 Maximum recursion limit of 500 reached. Use set(0,'RecursionLimit',N) to
 change the limit. Be aware that exceeding your available stack space can
 crash MATLAB and/or your computer.

Sometime between then and now (release R2016a) it looks like we changed the message in at least some cases.

 Out of memory. The likely cause is an infinite recursion within the program.

The best solution IMO is to avoid recursing that deeply. If you describe the problem you're trying to solve recursively, someone may be able to offer guidance on how to solve that using less recursion or no recursion at all.