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Date:Mon Nov 22 14:41:57 1992 
Subject:User stack overflow: Detecting the culprit 
From:Luc Beaudoin 
Volume-ID:921122.01 


Does anyone out there have tools for detecting the source of user stack
overflow (I take "stack overflow" to mean having unintended items on the
stack)? (I'm not looking for a piece of hardware that video records the
programmer, the real culprit :).)Particularly useful would be a utility
which, for every item currently on the stack, keeps track of which
procedure left the item there. Given such a utility, one could ask it
who is responsible for the Nth item on the stack.

Thanks,

Luc
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