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class Gotcha { public static void main(String... args) { try { main(); } finally { main(); } } }

No stack overflows here; move along.

At first glance, this should produce a StackOverflowError, but it doesn't! It actually just runs forever (for all practical purposes at least; technically it would terminate after a time many orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe). If you want to know how/why this works, see this this. Also, if you happen to be wondering why we can call main() without arguments when the main method generally would need a String[] argument: it's because we've declared it to be variable-argument here, which is perfectly valid.

Java

class Gotcha { public static void main(String... args) { try { main(); } finally { main(); } } }

No stack overflows here; move along.

At first glance, this should produce a StackOverflowError, but it doesn't! It actually just runs forever (for all practical purposes at least; technically it would terminate after a time many orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe). If you want to know how/why this works, see this. Also, if you happen to be wondering why we can call main() without arguments when the main method generally would need a String[] argument: it's because we've declared it to be variable-argument here, which is perfectly valid.

Java

class Gotcha { public static void main(String... args) { try { main(); } finally { main(); } } }

No stack overflows here; move along.

At first glance, this should produce a StackOverflowError, but it doesn't! It actually just runs forever (for all practical purposes at least; technically it would terminate after a time many orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe). If you want to know how/why this works, see this. Also, if you happen to be wondering why we can call main() without arguments when the main method generally would need a String[] argument: it's because we've declared it to be variable-argument here, which is perfectly valid.

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edited Mar 10, 2014 at 14:29

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class Gotcha { public static void main(String... args) { try { main(); } finally { main(); } } }

No stack overflows here; move along.

At first glance, this should produce a StackOverflowError, but it doesn't! It actually just runs forever (for all practical purposes at least; technically it would terminate after a time many orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe). If you want to know how/why this works, see this. Also, if you happen to be wondering why we can call main() without arguments when the main method generally would need a String[] argument: it's because we've declared it to be variable-argument here, which is perfectly valid.

Java

class Gotcha { public static void main(String... args) { try { main(); } finally { main(); } } }

No stack overflows here; move along.

At first glance, this should produce a StackOverflowError, but it doesn't! It actually just runs forever (for all practical purposes at least; technically it would terminate after a time longer than the age of the universe). If you want to know how/why this works, see this. Also, if you happen to be wondering why we can call main() without arguments when the main method generally would need a String[] argument: it's because we've declared it to be variable-argument here, which is perfectly valid.

Java

class Gotcha { public static void main(String... args) { try { main(); } finally { main(); } } }

No stack overflows here; move along.

At first glance, this should produce a StackOverflowError, but it doesn't! It actually just runs forever (for all practical purposes at least; technically it would terminate after a time many orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe). If you want to know how/why this works, see this. Also, if you happen to be wondering why we can call main() without arguments when the main method generally would need a String[] argument: it's because we've declared it to be variable-argument here, which is perfectly valid.

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edited Mar 9, 2014 at 17:54

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class Gotcha { public static void main(String... args) { try { main(); } finally { main(); } } }

No stack overflows here; move along.

At first glance, this should produce a StackOverflowError --, but it doesn't! It actually just runs forever (for all practical purposes at least; technically it would terminate after a time longer than the age of the universe). If you want to know how/why this works, see this. Also, if you happen to be wondering why we can call main() without arguments when the main method generally would need a String[] argument: it's because we've declared it to be variable-argument here, which is perfectly valid.

Java

class Gotcha { public static void main(String... args) { try { main(); } finally { main(); } } }

No stack overflows here; move along.

At first glance, this should produce a StackOverflowError -- but it doesn't! It actually just runs forever. If you want to know how/why this works, see this. Also, if you happen to be wondering why we can call main() without arguments when the main method generally would need a String[] argument: it's because we've declared it to be variable-argument here, which is perfectly valid.

Java

class Gotcha { public static void main(String... args) { try { main(); } finally { main(); } } }

No stack overflows here; move along.

At first glance, this should produce a StackOverflowError, but it doesn't! It actually just runs forever (for all practical purposes at least; technically it would terminate after a time longer than the age of the universe). If you want to know how/why this works, see this. Also, if you happen to be wondering why we can call main() without arguments when the main method generally would need a String[] argument: it's because we've declared it to be variable-argument here, which is perfectly valid.

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answered Mar 7, 2014 at 2:31

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