> -----Original Message----- > From: Tristan Gingold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 9:55 AM > To: Weddington, Eric > Cc: Paulo Marques; avr-gcc-list@nongnu.org; John Regehr > Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] Stack usage under heavy inlining > > > That's a pity. But was this tool geared towards Ada only? > > Not at all. It was working for any program compiled by GCC. > This is > just a new option for gcc so that > it generates .su files (stack usage) containing the number of bytes > allocated in the stack. For more > complex cases, it could be the maximum size. > There was also a new option to generate the call graph.
That's exactly what the AVR needs. > > John and I have had a number of conversations since then about the > > general problem of doing static analysis on stack usage, and it is > > a difficult problem to solve. > > For the general case, it is difficult. For avionic > application it is > much easier! Sure. There are more restrictions which will remove the more dangerous complexities, e.g. recursion. > Feel free to ask status about http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/ > 2006-06/msg01021.html, > that can help integration! > I would, but I think it would be better if the patch were updated and reposted. That's a 2 year old patch. _______________________________________________ AVR-GCC-list mailing list AVR-GCC-list@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-gcc-list
