Re: Stack Overflow Detection

Tomás Ó hÉilidhe wrote:
On May 30, 4:37 pm, Vladimir Vassilevsky <antispam_bo...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


The main problem with it is that you
never know for sure what is the maximum stack usage.



Are you sure about that? Would it not just be a case of determining
how much stack space each of the function's use, and then looking at
the logic of the program to see what could possibly be the deepest
level?

There are static-analysis tools that can do that. Some compilers/linkers do it and there are stand-alone tools like GnatStack, StackAnalyzer from AbsInt, and Bound-T from my company. Of course, these tools are not available for all processors, and may have difficulty with recursion and stack frames of dynamic (run-time-computed) size.

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