Cannot increase the stack size

Question

Hi,
We have a program which gives a StackOverflowError. Trying the increase the stack size using command line options does not work. A simple program shows that the stack is the same size, whatever option we set.
This is the program:
class StackOverflowTest
public static int counter = 0;
public static void main(String[] a)
try {
sub();
} catch (StackOverflowError e)
System.out.println("recursive calls: "+counter);
public static void sub()
counter++;
sub();
We tried several -Xss (and -Xoss) settings: 600K, 2048K, 4M but got the same recursion deep: 16683 (with Eclipse), or 16689 (command line).
We used Windows XP.
Do you have any clue?
Many thanks,
Zsolt

Answer 1

Oh good, they seem to have broken the forum formatting again.
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Bug ID:     4362291     Stack size argument ignored (-Xss and -ss)
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public class StackOverflowTest {
    public static int counter = 0;
    public static final void main(String[] a) {
        new Thread(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                try {
                    sub();
                } catch (StackOverflowError e) {
                    System.out.println("recursive calls: "+counter);
        }).start();
    public static final void sub() {
     counter++;
     sub();
/code]