Re: Large Stack Usage in One More Function

[Danny Cox <danscox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve,

On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 13:04, Steve Lord wrote:
> Probably not just the vattr_t, most of the function is a large switch
> statement, and each case in there has its own on the stack variables.
> If the compiler is not being smart about it they would each get
> their own non-overlapping space.

        Actually, I wondered about that, too (what the compiler does with temp
vars in {} blocks).

        The script is attached.  It requires the Disassemble and the blib
modules.  blib is included with the Disassemble module, and is available
from CPAN @

http://search.cpan.org/author/BOBMATH/Disassemble-X86-0.12/X86.pm

-- 
kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.

Danny


-- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis --
-- Type: text/x-perl
-- File: check_stack