Measuring Stack Usage the Hard Way | Interrupt

Embedded systems often require a careful eye to where memory resources are being spent, especially runtime memory utilization like stack and heap memories.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/measuring-stack-usage

Great Post, really love it!
Do I miss something or is hit_breakpoint function never defined?
I would assume it would look something like this:

def hit_breakpoint() -> bool:
    locations = []
    for gdb_breakpoint in gdb.breakpoints():
        for location in gdb_breakpoint.locations:
            locations.append(location.address)
    pc = int(gdb.parse_and_eval("$pc"))
    if pc in locations:
        return True
    return False

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Well spotted @Kaio , fixed up the example script to match the snippet in the article. Thanks for noticing the issue!

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Great article Noah. I just got hip to cut and it looks like gnuplot is the ideal graphing counterpart to that. :+1:

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do you need to compile with -fpic if you relocate your bootloader from flash to ram?