The only way to control the size of stack within process is start a new Thread. But you can also control by creating a self-calling sub Java process with the -Xss parameter.
public class TT {
private static int level = 0;
public static long fact(int n) {
level++;
return n < 2 ? n : n * fact(n - 1);
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
Thread t = new Thread(null, null, "TT", 1000000) {
@Override
public void run() {
try {
level = 0;
System.out.println(fact(1 << 15));
} catch (StackOverflowError e) {
System.err.println("true recursion level was " + level);
System.err.println("reported recursion level was "
+ e.getStackTrace().length);
}
}
};
t.start();
t.join();
try {
level = 0;
System.out.println(fact(1 << 15));
} catch (StackOverflowError e) {
System.err.println("true recursion level was " + level);
System.err.println("reported recursion level was "
+ e.getStackTrace().length);
}
}
}