That's a pity. But was this tool geared towards Ada only?
Not at all. It was working for any program compiled by GCC. This is
just a new option for gcc so that
it generates .su files (stack usage) containing the number of bytes
allocated in the stack. For more
complex cases, it could be the maximum size.
There was also a new option to generate the call graph.
There is also "stacktool" written by Dr. John Regehr (CCed) that is
for AVR programs, but mainly geared towards TinyOS/AVR based
applications. When this first came out, I initially had problems
getting it to work on a significantly-sized real-world program. In
the end, I never got the tool to work.
John and I have had a number of conversations since then about the
general problem of doing static analysis on stack usage, and it is
a difficult problem to solve.
For the general case, it is difficult. For avionic application it is
much easier!
Feel free to ask status about http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/
2006-06/msg01021.html,
that can help integration!
Tristan.
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