How to know about OutOfMemory or StackOverflow errors ahead of time

Question

In Java, is there a way to know that a StackOverflow error or OutOfMemory exception may happen soon?

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Answer 1

Most StackOverflow errors come out of bad recursion. Unfortunately, the problem of determining if a recursion will stop is generally not decidable (this is a central concept in CS). There are cases, however, you could get warnings, for example some IDEs will let you know if you're invoking a function recursively with no parameters.