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- From: lpb@cs.bham.ac.uk (Luc Beaudoin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pop
- Subject: User stack overflow: Detecting the culprit
- Keywords: stack
- Message-ID: <By4Gty.Ax2@cs.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 14:41:57 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.bham.ac.uk
- Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
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- Does anyone out there have tools for detecting the source of user stack
- overflow (I take "stack overflow" to mean having unintended items on the
- stack)? (I'm not looking for a piece of hardware that video records the
- programmer, the real culprit :).)Particularly useful would be a utility
- which, for every item currently on the stack, keeps track of which
- procedure left the item there. Given such a utility, one could ask it
- who is responsible for the Nth item on the stack.
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- Thanks,
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- Luc
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