how to expand size of Java stack trace to see bottom of stack? (triggering a stack overflow)

Question

In Java, is there any way to view the complete, untruncated stack trace (e.g. by increasing the number of frames recorded), or otherwise get at the bottom of a stac

Answer 1

Try the -XX:MaxJavaStackTraceDepth JVM option.

Here is a description from Stas's Blog

Max. no. of lines in the stack trace for Java exceptions (0 means all). With Java > 1.6, value 0 really means 0. value -1 or any negative number must be specified to print all the stack (tested with 1.6.0_22, 1.7.0 on Windows). With Java <= 1.5, value 0 means everything, JVM chokes on negative number (tested with 1.5.0_22 on Windows).