In an operating system I worked with as a system administrator, an 
out-of-memory condition caused a similar failure-without-notice, which the 
vendor fixed by allocating a memory page at start-up reserved solely for 
space for producing appropriate failure messages.

Leslie

On 2018-08-26 12:00:50 Rick McGuire wrote:
> Yes, I understand, but the root cause of this problem is a failure trying
> to expand the liveStack during a garbage collection. The call to
> reportException() at that time causes a recursive allocation failure,
> resulting in the eventual out-of-stack condition. I suspect the only real
> way to handle this situation is a calling logicError() to indicate there
> has been an unrecoverable out of memory situation.
>
> Rick
>
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 12:56 PM Erich Steinböck
> <erich.steinbo...@gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
> > The actual failure is stack overflow (due the the infinite recursion it
> > goes into)
> >
> > Unhandled exception at 0x000007FED88162FC (rexx.dll) in rexx.exe:
> > 0xC00000FD: Stack overflow (parameters: 0x0000000000000001,
> > 0x00000000000D3FC0).
> >
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