Re: [avr-gcc-list] Stack usage under heavy inlining

[Tristan Gingold]

On Sep 8, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Paulo Marques wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Yesterday I was tracking down a problem in a personal project of  
> mine whose symptoms looked like a stack overflow.
>
> As it turned out, it was the same problem with gcc that I had  
> already read about on LKML: when gcc inlines a function it  
> increases the stack usage of the caller by almost all the stack  
> usage of the callee.

At AdaCore we have a tool (gnatstack) that compute the stack usage of  
a program.  We have submitted (a long
time ago) patches to gcc for this tool.  IIRC they were never  
commented nor approved - lack of interests.

Tristan.