Review Request 8144553: java/lang/StackWalker/StackWalkTest.java and MultiThreadStackWalk.java fail with stack overflows

[Daniel Fuchs]

On 17/12/15 16:22, Mandy Chung wrote:
>> On Dec 17, 2015, at 6:02 AM, Daniel Fuchs<daniel.fuchs at oracle.com>  wrote:
>> >
>> >Hi Mandy,
>> >
>> >I believe it would be good to have some test that go over
>> >the 1024 limit - as this has been useful to detect bugs
>> >when we were actively prototyping the API.
>> >
>> >So  maybe we should first try to reduce from 2000 to e.g. 1028?
>> >
> Are you relating 1024 to the MaxJavaStackTraceDepth?  That is the max depth of builtin  backtrace.  StackWalker no longer has the maxDepth.

Yes. Is this truly gone? I thought it was still lurking :-)

StackStreamFactory.java
918:        private static final int MAX_STACK_FRAMES = 1024;


best regards,

-- daniel