"StackOverflowError is not thrown" on Windows XP Professional.

I tried my program ( as given below ) with jdk1.4.0 b86 , jdk1.4.0 b80 & jdk1.3.1 b24 - and it's not throwing stack overflow error .It's just exiting without throwing stackoverflowerror after some iterations.

Program is throwing StackOverflowError on solaris & other windows.( not tried this on Windows XP Home Edition , since I don't have XP Home Edition )

But with jdk1.3.0 it's throwing error , I got o/p as below :

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i= :9006
#
# An EXCEPTION_STACK_OVERFLOW exception has been detected in native code outside the VM.
# Program counter=0x77f534f9
#
[1] + Done(139) java CatchStackError
  1720 Segmentation violation java
[C:/sreejith] java -version
java version "1.3.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0-C)
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public class CatchStackError{
  static int recursiveDepth =20000;

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
   
        CatchStackError cse = new CatchStackError();
        cse.recursive(1);
      
  }
  void recursive(int i) {
    i = i +1;
      
    if (i <recursiveDepth) {
       System.out.println("i= :"+i);
       recursive(i);
    }
            
        
  }
  
}
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