Changeset 71f4beb in rtems for cpukit/libmisc/stackchk/README

Timestamp:

04/15/98 15:08:49 (25 years ago)

Author:

Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@…>

Branches:

4.10, 4.11, 4.8, 4.9, 5, master

Children:

d07d3eec

Parents:

9b64c2d5

Message:

Stack check now initialized as part of initial extension set.

File:

• cpukit/libmisc/stackchk/README (modified) (2 diffs)

cpukit/libmisc/stackchk/README

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 #  $Id$
 #
+
+Introduction
+============
 
 This directory contains a stack bounds checker.  It provides two
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    + check for stack overflow at each context switch
    + provides an educated guess at each task's stack usage
+
+Enabling
+========
+
+Add the stack checker extension to the initial user extension set.
+If using confdefs.h to build your configuration table, this is
+as simple as adding -DSTACK_CHECK_ON to the gcc command line which
+compiles the file defining the configuration table.  In the RTEMS
+test suites and samples, this is always init.c
+
+Background
+==========
 
 The stack overflow check at context switch works by looking for