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

[Mandy Chung]

> On Dec 17, 2015, at 7:39 AM, Daniel Fuchs <daniel.fuchs at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> 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;
> 


This is for StackTrace which is used to generate Thread::dumpStack and Thread::getStackTrace with a limit on the number of stack trace elements.

Mandy