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Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:44:20 +0200
From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Andi wrote:
> Thank you Stuart for the help.
> Stuart wrote:
> 
>> As a pedagogical point - the Ada language does not really define what 
>> the stack (if any) is used for, so your results may not be universally 
>> applicable (but I suspect that is not a significant concern).
> 
> But every task has it's own memory (probably the name "stack" is not 
> correct.
> 
> for my_task'size use 16*1024 (as I remember)
> and it runs ....
> 
> Now I can make a couple of trial to figure out how mucch is really 
> needed and than I have to do that for all the other tasks .... not my 
> favorit job ;-)
> 
> Andy

Oh, you want to know how much stack-space a task needs overall 
(worst case), not how much is in use at a particular point in the 
execution? If so, how about GNATstack:

http://www.adacore.com/home/gnatpro/add-on_technologies/stack_analysis/

Or AbsInt's StackAnalyzer:

http://www.absint.com/stackanalyzer/

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Niklas Holsti
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