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

You could discover a lot about recursion depth, by creating a Throwable object, and querying its getStackTrace() method. But this is expensive to do.

If you really have a method with a small potential of throwing a StackOverflowError or an OutOfMemoryError why not just insert try-catch blocks and catch those errors? They can be caught and handled just like checked exceptions.