Stack usage

[esben]

Hi.
I would like to know exactly how much stack my program needs. I have been told that I can start by making the stack excessively large, fill it with a certain pattern, like AAAAAAAA, and after running the program see up to which address the pattern is not overwritten.

My problem is to find a way to access the content of the stack memory section.

I have tried declaring a void pointer in main, and then by the end of the mainfunction, accessing the stack area via the watch window. In the value column of the watch window it says: "Cannot load from non/primitive location", when I attemt to access a stack address

My IDE is Code Composer Studio 3.1.

Can anyone help me on this one?

Thanks,
Esben.

[Dave_Sinkula]

>My IDE is Code Composer Studio 3.1.
Doesn't that have a memory browser?

[esben]

>Doesn't that have a memory browser?
Dont think so... It has a "symbol browser", but that only shows what in what address my stack is allocated.

My option right now, is to step through the code and then keep track of the stack pointer, to see where is is lowest. I am looking for a more elegant way though...

[Dave_Sinkula]

I googled a manual, and it mentions a Memory Window in section 5.2.6. It's been many years, but it seems to me this was there in v1.x ('cuz I was looking at a memory window quite often).

[esben]

I found it, thanks!