Just be aware about usual MockK support pattern. Tickets are checked from time to time, replied, discussed, labeled, e.t.c. But real fixes are applied in a month-two month period in a bunch. If you ...

These are just normal exceptions. To really crash a VM there are 3 ways: Use JNI and crash in the native code. If no security manager is installed you can use reflection to crash the VM. This is VM ...

It is significant that StackOverflowError ends with the word Error and is an Error (extends java.lang.Error via java.lang.VirtualMachineError) rather than a checked or runtime Exception.