How much memory does one stack of a recursive call in Java take?

Question

How much memory does a stack of a recursive call take? What does it depend on, and how do I find the exact amount of memory used by a particular recursive stack in Java

Answer 1

A strack frame contains:

• a return address
• a base pointer
• enough space for all the parameters and local variables that are declared in the method concerned, remembering that object-valued variables are references to objects, not objects.

This is almost always trivial.

There is no method in Java (at least short of the debugger API) that will tell you.