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// This class shows what happens when you overflow the stack.
// The "try" block prevents the system from generating a run-time
// stack trace when the program aborts.
//
// To make the crash happen sooner, add some large local variables to
// the recurse method, to make each stack frame (activation record)
// larger.
//
// Written 2004 by Wayne Pollock, Tampa Florida USA.

class StackGoBoom
{
    public static void main ( String [] args )
    {
        try
        {
            recurse( 1 );
        }
        catch ( Throwable t ) { System.out.println( t ); }
    }

    static void recurse ( int level )
    {
        System.out.println( level );
        recurse( level + 1 );
    }
}