Tool to determine stack usage?

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2 total messages Started by Keith Bennett Thu, 29 Sep 1994 22:11

#203

Author: Keith Bennett
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 22:11

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I make an educated guess when determining the stack size for a new
thread.  Does anyone have any suggestion as to a more accurate
method?  That is, are there any tools that will analyze a thread at
runtime to determine its maximum use?  For example, would the profiler
do something like this?

I realize that the stack usage may differ from run to run based on the
conditions at runtime, but this would nevertheless be useful.

Thanks.
- Keith

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Re: Tool to determine stack usage?

#202

Author: Michael Hemsworth
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 13:05

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In <36fe1t$pq4@cpcug.org>, kbennett@cpcug.org (Keith Bennett) writes:
>I make an educated guess when determining the stack size for a new
>thread.  Does anyone have any suggestion as to a more accurate
>method?

Keith:

Checkout the DosGetInfoBlocks function in the Dos API,
(page 2-129 of the Control Program Programming Reference).
It returns the address of TIB (thread info block) of the current thread
       and the address of PIB (process info block) of the current process.
There are two fields in the TIB that contain the base and end address
of the current thread's stack.

HTH.
	mike

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