The linker, rather than the compiler, is responsible for setting the stack size of the main thread. The man page for ld contains the following: -stack_size size Specifies the maximum stack size for the main thread in a program. Without this option a program has a 8MB stack. The argument size is a hexadecimal number … Read more
The observed behavior is affected by the HotSpot optimizer, however it is not the only cause. When I run the following code public static void main(String[] argv) { System.out.println(System.getProperty(“java.version”)); System.out.println(countDepth()); System.out.println(countDepth()); System.out.println(countDepth()); System.out.println(countDepth()); System.out.println(countDepth()); System.out.println(countDepth()); System.out.println(countDepth()); } static int countDepth() { try { return 1+countDepth(); } catch(StackOverflowError err) { return 0; } } with JIT … Read more
You are looking at the guy that made that choice. David Cutler and his team selected one megabyte as the default stack size. Nothing to do with .NET or C#, this was nailed down when they created Windows NT. One megabyte is what it picks when the EXE header of a program or the CreateThread() … Read more