calling functions within functions

Hi, just a question about functions. For example, i have a main function, which calls a displayMenu func, this then calls a series of other functions until finally the gameOver function is called. At the end of this function, i call displayMenu again to show the menu, so that the user may replay the game if they wish. My question is, would my computer create the 2nd displayMenu function within the gameOver function (already an extension of my first displayMenu function) or would it overwrite as such, the first menu call i did at the beginning of my program. I think i've explained that diabolically, so i'll try and draw a little graphic:

Would my calling the 2nd menu function make the computer do something like this:

Code:

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main
  displayMenu
    someotherFuncs
      gameOver
        displayMenu
          someotherFunctions
            gameOver
              displayMenu

---

etc etc...

or would it do this:

Code:

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main
  displayMenu
    someotherFuncs
      gameOver
  displayMenu
    someotherFuncs
      gameOver
  displayMenu

---

etc etc...

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I am currently writing a snake game, and at first i had the main menu running in a while loop and calling appropriate functions until the user entered the exit command. however this produced some weird results, so i changed to calling the main menu function whenever the game finished instead of just exiting back into the loop. This got me thinking about my above question, as if the answer is indeed the first case, this cant be very good for my computer when running the program at all hehe.

ps. I think i'm going for the record on most uses of the word 'function' in a thread.

any help greatly appreciated

Thanks.

If I understand you correctly, then your program is actually in an infinite loop, and will just use up resources until it can't support itself and it crashes. I would either redesign the structure of your program, or make some provision to allow the program to break out of this cycle at a certain point. I recommend the first. If you need some help, post your code.

Easiest thing to do would be to call DisplayMenu from main in a loop which loops untill DisplayMenu returns a value indicating the user wishes to quit and return to main after the GameOver() call.
For reference unless you've used the inline directive functions aren't added to other functions the program jumps to that function and the return makes the program jump to where it came from so you only get one copy of each function.

Thanks for the help