RFR: 8337142: StackOverflowError in Types.containsTypeRecursive with deeply nested type hierarchy

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2025 11:02:41 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Question: what if containsTypeEquivalent is defined in terms of containsTypeRecursive? Won't the cache then prevent the SOE?

This seems to fix the SOE -- but it introduces some spurious errors in the build... maybe worth more investigation? E.g. it almost seems as if javac kind of relies on cycles not to be detected...

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28101#issuecomment-3480014278