Confusing output from infinite recursion within try-catch

Question

Consider the following code.

public class Action {
private static int i=1;
public static void main(String[] args)          


        

Answer 1

If the execution of println (or one of the methods called by it) causes a stack overflow, you will print the same i value from the catch clause of the enclosing main incarnation.

The exact behavior is rather unpredictable as it depends on the stack space still available.