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RE: PR java/1373: recursion stress test causes segmentation fault
On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 01:35, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > In fact, thinking about this some more, I'm not sure how this can be
> > safely handled in standard JVMs either.
>
> Exactly. There aren't any significant differences between a
> fully-compiled and a JIT environment from this point of view. So, if
> they can do it, we can do it.
Is it possible that they're just giving the illusion of doing it
properly?
For instance, it's easy to imagine having a watchdog thread that
periodically samples the various thread stack sizes and forces large
enough ones to throw errors.
AG
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