Re: top stack (l)users for 2.5.69

[Jörn Engel]

On Thu, 8 May 2003 09:51:16 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Jörn Engel wrote:
> > If I read this correctly, your patch doesn't catch everything, if
> > there are functions remaining that use stack frames >0x200ul.  Ok,
> > tell me I'm wrong and should go through the assembler code first.
> 
> If any function is ever called with < 0x200 bytes of space left on the
> stack, it considers it an overflow.

Is that number before or after the function placed it's own stackframe
on the stack? If before, I'd rather increase that to 0x400 or even a
bit higher. But hopefully gcc is smarter than that.

Jörn

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