How do you crash a JVM?

Question

I was reading a book on programming skills wherein the author asks the interviewee, \"How do you crash a JVM?\" I thought that you could do so by writing an infinite for-loo

Answer 1

Last time I tried this would do it:

public class Recur {
    public static void main(String[] argv) {
        try {
            recur();
        }
        catch (Error e) {
            System.out.println(e.toString());
        }
        System.out.println("Ended normally");
    }
    static void recur() {
        Object[] o = null;
        try {
            while(true) {
                Object[] newO = new Object[1];
                newO[0] = o;
                o = newO;
            }
        }
        finally {
            recur();
        }
    }
}

First part of generated log file:

#
# An unexpected error has been detected by Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  EXCEPTION_STACK_OVERFLOW (0xc00000fd) at pc=0x000000006dad5c3d, pid=6752, tid=1996
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (11.2-b01 mixed mode windows-amd64)
# Problematic frame:
# V  [jvm.dll+0x2e5c3d]
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
#

---------------  T H R E A D  ---------------

Current thread (0x00000000014c6000):  VMThread [stack: 0x0000000049810000,0x0000000049910000] [id=1996]

siginfo: ExceptionCode=0xc00000fd, ExceptionInformation=0x0000000000000001 0x0000000049813fe8 

Registers:
EAX=0x000000006dc83090, EBX=0x000000003680f400, ECX=0x0000000005d40ce8, EDX=0x000000003680f400
ESP=0x0000000049813ff0, EBP=0x00000000013f2df0, ESI=0x00000000013f0e40, EDI=0x000000003680f400
EIP=0x000000006dad5c3d, EFLAGS=0x0000000000010206