Problems stemming from stack overflows during the execution of critical sections have been mitigated. This mitigation takes the form of reserving additional thread stack space.
Reserved stack areas for critical sections
The pre-Java 9 situation
The JVM throws StackOverflowError when it is asked to perform data computation in a thread that has insufficient stack space and does not have permission to allocate additional space. This is an asynchronous exception. The JVM can also throw the StackOverflowError exception synchronously when a method is invoked.
When a method is invoked, an internal process is used to report the stack overflow. While the current schema works sufficiently for reporting the error, there is no room for...
