Hello. I noticed that String.concat can throw StringIndexOutOfBoundsException:
String r1 = "-".repeat(Integer.MAX_VALUE - 10); String r2 = "ы".repeat((Integer.MAX_VALUE - 10) / 2); System.out.println(r1.concat(r2)); On JDK 24 it gives: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: Range [0, 0 + 2147483637) out of bounds for length 1073741807 at java.base/jdk.internal.util.Preconditions$1.apply(Preconditions.java:55) at java.base/jdk.internal.util.Preconditions$1.apply(Preconditions.java:52) at java.base/jdk.internal.util.Preconditions$4.apply(Preconditions.java:213) at java.base/jdk.internal.util.Preconditions$4.apply(Preconditions.java:210) at java.base/jdk.internal.util.Preconditions.outOfBounds(Preconditions.java:98) at java.base/jdk.internal.util.Preconditions.outOfBoundsCheckFromIndexSize(Preconditions.java:118) at java.base/jdk.internal.util.Preconditions.checkFromIndexSize(Preconditions.java:397) at java.base/java.lang.String.checkBoundsOffCount(String.java:4938) at java.base/java.lang.StringUTF16.checkBoundsOffCount(StringUTF16.java:1789) at java.base/java.lang.StringUTF16.inflate(StringUTF16.java:1616) at java.base/java.lang.StringLatin1.inflate(StringLatin1.java:875) at java.base/java.lang.String.getBytes(String.java:4812) at java.base/java.lang.StringConcatHelper.doConcat(StringConcatHelper.java:434) at java.base/java.lang.String.concat(String.java:2977) On JDK 23 it results in expected OOM: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Overflow: String length out of range at java.base/java.lang.StringConcatHelper.checkOverflow(StringConcatHelper.java:66) at java.base/java.lang.StringConcatHelper.mix(StringConcatHelper.java:125) at java.base/java.lang.StringConcatHelper.simpleConcat(StringConcatHelper.java:374) at java.base/java.lang.String.concat(String.java:2990) Andrey Turbanov