Re: top stack (l)users for 2.5.69

From: Dave Hansen (haveblue@us.ibm.com)
Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 11:51:16 EST

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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.

-- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com

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