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java.util.Sublist throwing StackOverFlowError

We are getting occasional StackOverFlowError errors in production related to doing a SubList operation. Has anyone seen something like this before and know what could cause it? This is the code that ...
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While loop stack overflow

I use this method, and i get the while loop stack overflow. No error message or crash. I got this in my log cat: 05-18 20:17:16.528: W/InputEventReceiver(19831): Attempted to finish an input event ...
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Stack overflow error with GUI

Alright so I am making a calculater, and I am getting a stack overflow error, i'm guessing because it's trying to handle to much data. import java.awt.*; import javax.swing.*; import ...
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java.lang.StackOverflowError Recursive Directory

In my Android application I'm populating all of the paths of the external storage into an array. A small number of devices are reporting a StackOverflowError. I've read many linked posts regarding ...
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Why does the JDK implementation of quicksort risk a stack overflow?

I saw a presentation the other day in which the speaker had used the technique outlined in McIlroy's paper A Killer Adversary for Quicksort to generate an input to Arrays.sort for primitive types that ...
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Java Stackoverflow Error Recursion

This code I have written works great until a certain input size. If the input gets too large, I get a "java.lang.StackOverflowError". I have read some other entries on stackoverflow regarding this ...
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Effect of stackoverflow on application server [closed]

Was wondering if one of the requests to a web server results in StackOverflow error is the whole server shutdown or just the thread dies or an error is thrown back to the client?
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StackOverflowError while saving and loading my object in android

I'm writing an android program and i just ran into a problem. My program serves to create graphs, run some specific algorithms on them (Dijsktra, BelmanFord, etc.), save the graphs to SD Card and ...
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Jigsaw Puzzle Solver [duplicate]

Ok, so I have a 3 x 3 jig saw puzzle game that I am writing and I am stuck on the solution method. public Piece[][] solve(int r, int c) { if (isSolved()) return board; board[r][c] = ...
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Blackberry - calling super.sublayout causes stack overflow

Edit on Nate's request: public class MainView extends MainScreen implements FieldChangeListener { private VerticalFieldManager vfm = new VerticalFieldManager(...); private CustomField field1 ...
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Java concurrency: synchronized statements/methods causing StackOverflowError exception

I'm stress-testing an event callback handling framework in Java which makes heavy use of concurrency where possible, and thus makes use of synchronized methods and statements when data races are a ...
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Why do i get a StackOverflowError

I made a function that computes the sum of digits of an integer. Trying to make the code shorter, i put in comment the if statement to see if would still work so i can remove it but i get a ...
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Spring MVC Stack Over Flow Error - trying to get data from database

I have a form that inserts into a database however before i preform the insert i check if there are existing records. I am unable to insert the record and i am getting a StackOverFlow Error. Can ...
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Android minesweeper game causes stackoverflow [closed]

I'm trying to do simple minesweeper game in android platform.When i'm clicking a block tile it triggers this recursive function to reveal empty blocks around it. private void openBlocks(int r,int ...
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how to rewrite the digamma funcition to nonrecursive

I ran a java program and got a stackoverflow error and this error was caused in a digamma function,the code is public static double digamma(double x) { if (x >= 0 && x < ...
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Check everything in one list again another, causing a stack overflow

Basically, I'm trying to check an arrayList of numbers against another ArrayList of numbers, As I want to see if anything in my TempPositionList, is in my Visited words list, however because Visisted ...
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Java dealing with stackoverflow and continue normal execution after stackoverflow error

I'm trying to do a recursion in Java. I just want to stop the recursion and continue normal prgram execution void doit(){ try{ doit(); } catch (StackOverflowError e) { ...
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Why do I get java.lang.StackOverflowError when using Flood Fill algorithm?

My program is supposed to fill in a non-regular shape with a color (black and white for the beginning) that I specify in the boundaryFill4 method. Here is the link to myImage.png: ...
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Quicksort Algorithm causing stack overflow

SOLVED: posted in the end of THIS comment. I keep getting this error and I can't find any explanation to why it occurs. Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StackOverflowError at ...
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Can someone explain why I'm encountering stackoverflow?

I have a int, "count" that adds one after each recursion, but I also have an if statement that stops the recursion once the int is equal to, or greater than another integer. Somehow that if statement ...
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Why does this method cause an Infinite Recursive call?

I'm struggling to understand why this class is not functioning. It was part of an assignment for a course on Data Structures(EDIT: The deadline for the assignment has passed, I just want to figure it ...
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Quicksort (Java) causes StackOverFlow at array.length > 60k

My code works properly (to my knowledge) up until my input array size (a.length) is around 62,000 at which time I consistently get a StackOverFlowError. I previously had used 2 recursive calls to ...
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StackOverflowError on keyReleased, but mouseReleased works fine

Selecting with the mouse works fine, as can be seen in the below run-time logs: init: Deleting: /home/thufir/NetBeansProjects/gnumail-providers/build/built-jar.properties deps-jar: Updating property ...
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Stack overflow when calculating the 10,001st prime number in Java

I am doing problem 7 of Project Euler. What I am supposed to do is calculate the 10,001st prime number. (A prime number is an integer greater than one that is only divisible by itself and one.) Here ...
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Why Stack overflow error occurs on creating nonstatic instance within an instance? [duplicate]

Why Stack overflow error occurs on creating nonstatic instance within an instance of same class ?? public class ObjectTest { ObjectTest instanceObj = new ObjectTest("Outside"); public ...
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Why do I still burn out the stack using tail recursive Fibonacci algorithm?

Stack overflows before n=1000. Is it because of the reference to the long[] parameter, that the JVM feels the need to hold on to every stack frame (wild guess), or am I doing something else wrong? ...
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StackOverFlow Error while handling input of size 100000 and more

I am using Collections.sort()in a List of size 100000 and getting StackOverFlow error. How can I scale this up? Here is the code: This is a part of a big project. Collections.sort() is being called ...
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Stack Overflow Error in Java

I'm trying to code a program that finds the kth smallest element using recursion and quick sort like partitioning so as not to have to sort the entire array. I feel like my code should work, but I get ...
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Compiles in Eclipse but not with Javac from command line: StackOverFlow

I have a Java project that contains many very large source files and it compiles fine in Eclipse, however it will not compile with javac from the command line or within Ant. When I try to compile it ...
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What is a stack overflow error?

I'm a complete beginner writing Breakout (the game) in Java. All was going well until I started to get a stack overflow error in the late game. Unfortunately I know that without actually putting the ...
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Url Shortener redirects to index.html

Yes, yet another url shortener written in java, because I wanted my own, and because why not. Currently everything works, just not they way I want to to. In short, there is only one servlet mapped ...
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The correct way to initialize classes and stack overflow errors

This may be a stupid question, but I'm getting sick of this. How do you properly initialize a class object so you can access methods and variables in it? Here's my code: public class GenChunk { ...
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recursion method Stack Overflow error

In my code i am just trying to make a simple program that tells you if one number can divide into another number evenly (in this case that number is 3). right now I am saying that if x (the number ...
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Understanding java stack

There is a code: public class Main { public static void main(final String[] args) throws Exception { System.out.print("1"); doAnything(); System.out.println("2"); } ...
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Recursive bin packing algorithm won't scale

I completed an assignment whose specs require: Recursive solution Capacity <= 100 values.length <= 25 Only parameters are capacity and index Repetition of values is allowed I've spent ...
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StackOverflowError when matching large input using RegEx

I got StackOverflowError when matching the result using a RegEx pattern. The pattern is (\d\*?(;(?=\d))?)+. This regex is used to validate the input: 12345;4342;234*;123*;344324 The input is a ...
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Analyze some html pages from StackOverflow

I need to extract answers from 500 stackoverflow questions at a time, but suddenly I read this error on Eclipse console: Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL: ...
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Is that “StackOverflowError” on Java RegularExpressions always means necessity to optimise Regex?

To read CSV files, I have the following regular expression in Java: Pattern csvline = Pattern.compile("((([^\\\"]|\\\"\\\")+|\\\"([^\\\"]|\\\"\\\")+\\\"))*", Pattern.DOTALL); This expression passes ...
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Stackoverflow with Quicksort Java implementation

Having some problems implementing quicksort in java. I get a stackoverflow error when I run this program and I'm not exactly sure why. If anyone can point out the error, it would be great. si is ...
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StackOverFlowError when removing components from a JPanel [closed]

I have a JPanel that contains other panels with different GUI components including buttons with action listeners. At some point I want to remove some of the components and add new ones. So I try to ...
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Stackoverflow error while implementing insertion sort using recursion

public static void insertionSortRecursion(String a[], int first, int last) { if (first < last) { //sort all but last insertionSortRecursion(a, first, last - 1); ...
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StackOverflowError No idea what is wrong

I'm continuously receiving this error when trying to run my program. Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StackOverflowError at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1.invoke(Unknown Source) at ...
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Mergesort - Stackoverflow when splitting array not in a half

I've a problem. I have to edit the standard mergesort algorithm, changing the ratio between the two halves of the array. Standard mergesort splits array in 2. BUT I've to split it with a coefficient. ...
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how a class building its other instances while being constructor

I want to create a coordinate class while when I instantiate this class, it automatically build its 6 adjacent coordinate, however, when I was doing it, I always encountered stackoverflow problem and ...
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StackOverflowError in recursive binary search in file in java

The filepointer gets stuck at a point resulting in a StackOverflowError. Can you point me to what exactly is wrong here? The error exactly is: java.lang.StackOverflowError I am doing a seek to find ...
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Stack Overflow error when constructing a new object in Java

I'm trying to construct a PackingCase object with a certain set of values. While the program shows no errors during coding, when running, I get this error; Exception in thread "main" ...
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Why doesn't Java forkbomb cause a StackOverflowError?

I am new to programming, and I'm trying to teach myself what a StackOverflow is caused by. I played around with loops and caused the error, but a code for a forkbomb I tested doesn't cause the error. ...
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StackOverflowError when calling RuleGrammar.listRuleNames() using Sphinx

I am using Sphinx to parse grammar files. I have a function that loads all the grammar files. This function is called at the start of the program and every time the user requests a reload. When ...
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Why does my recursion not return but end up in a stack overflow?

First off, this is part of an extra credit homework, so please do not give me the answer. Please just help me understand where I might have a problem with what is going on. It is a Tic-Tac-Toe ...
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Stack search causes stack overflow

I am trying to search a "hand of cards" (a queue) by inputting a search card, comparing the values (colour and rank) of the search card to the current card in the hand, and if a match is found, ...

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