--- work/sablevm-1.0.6/src/libsablevm/thread.c.orig	Fri Dec 13 11:29:17 2002
+++ work/sablevm-1.0.6/src/libsablevm/thread.c	Fri Dec 13 11:29:19 2002
@@ -229,7 +229,8 @@
 	  void *new_stack;
 
 	  /* detect overflows */
-	  if (new_size <= current_size)
+	  if ((vm->stack_max_size != 0 && new_size > vm->stack_max_size) ||
+	      new_size <= current_size)
 	    {
 	      _svmf_error_OutOfMemoryError (env);
 	      return JNI_ERR;