wrong error thrown on inability to create an activation frame

Name: swC45995 Date: 12/04/96


The following assertion do not holds:

If there is not sufficient memory available to create such an activation frame, an <code>OutOfMemoryError</code> is thrown. (#15.11.4.5 Create Frame,
Synchronize, Transfer Control)

Thus, execution of the following test

public class test
{
static void doSomething(long l)
{
if (l > 0)
doSomething(++l);
}

public static void main(String argv[])
{
try {
doSomething(1L);
} catch (OutOfMemoryError e) {
System.out.println("OutOfMemoryError");
return;
} catch (StackOverflowError e) {
System.out.println("StackOverflowError");
return;
}
System.out.println("fail");
}
}

produces such output:

novo40% java test
StackOverflowError


instead of expected:

novo40% java test
OutOfMemoryError
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