Re: Caclulating operand stack size

Anton Ertl wrote:


> You can even calculate the depth including any non-recursive direct
> calls from the current function, and check for that, so you don't need
> to check at every such call. You have to arrange the calling
> convention appropriately; I would do it like this: the caller is
> responsible for the checking and growing, and (for indirect calls)
> accesses a field in the callee that contains information about the
> maximum stack depth of the callee before the next check.


You realize that your approach will have to separate subroutines, that
do the stack check, from subroutines that do not have to perform stack
checks?


How many subroutines can be allowed to omit an stack check, in every
situation?


DoDi

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