Seems like a more difficult problem than I thought! Would a simulator be able 
pick this kind of error up?

Quoting Dmitry <[email protected]>:

> precisely, Steve.
> stack overflow is a very annoyng thing.
> However there one can see, if something really stupid has been done.
> 
> Actually, 3-current gives some info on max stack usage within a file...
> this does not take into account nested calls.
> 
> ~d
> 
> 
> On Monday 14 April 2003 19:19, Steve Underwood wrote:
> > Not really, Dmitry. That gives you no clue as to whether there is
> > sufficient RAM for the stack.
> >
> > Static worst case stack analysers used to be a part of many embedded
> > system compilers in the 80s. Now, they seem to have gone. There were a
> > *very* valuable tool.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Steve
> >
> > Dmitry wrote:
> > >hi Malan,
> > >linker will bark with a message like:
> > >   msp430-ld: address 0x5026 of a.out section .bss is not within region
> data
> > >
> > >Also, you can check a memory utilization with
> > >msp430-size.
> > >
> > >~d
> > >
> > >On Monday 14 April 2003 17:32, malan wrote:
> > >>Hi
> > >>I'm new to msp-gcc (I used IAR until now). The free compiler
> looksreally
> > >>cool. I just have one question... What happens when I have more
> variables
> > >>than the MSP's RAM can hold. E.g. an array: float someArray[100000]?
> Will
> > >>the compiler tell me that I'm being stupid or must I check through my
> > >> whole program and make sure I'll never exceed this limit? I know this
> is
> > >> a stupid question but I really don't know!
> > >>
> > >>Thanx,
> > >>Malan Joubert
> >
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