Re: Wanted: a program that calulates the maximal stack depth

        On unix machines, what about writing your own version of mcount that
keeps track of the maximum stack size. Then compile your program for
profiling (which puts a call to mcount at the top of every procedure, and
uses libraries that similarly call mcount). Depending on how clean you
wanted to be there could be more or less collusion between your mcount
routine and your main program to extract the maximum stack size before
exiting.


        This still only gets you the stack size for the sample runs you make,
not the theoretical limit for your program.


... peter
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