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Re: Stack overflow: how to monitor stack usage?

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On 07/25/2014 12:48 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> On 07/25/2014 12:07 PM, Johann Klammer wrote:
>> I see you are calling the previous handler to keep sys timing
>> consistent. I believe you are supposed to use chain_intr or sthg
>> instead... because of the iret which takes a bit more off the stack than
>> just a return address... register image... (It' ll _under_run)
>
> What you say makes a lot of sense. I can see indeed how daisy-chaining
> interrupt routines could lead to stack corruption.
>
> I looked into my Turbo C reference documentation, and unfortunately it
> seem there is no 'chaining' function that would allow to call another
> INT handler in a clean way.
>
> Also, all INT-handling functions I could find on the internet (and
> written for Turbo C) do exactly like I do - calling the original handler
> 'as-is'. So I wonder if maybe Turbo C is supposed to detect such
> situation and apply some hidden magic...
>
> Here I found a sad statement:
>    http://stanislavs.org/helppc/_chain_intr.html
>
> "no corresponding function in Turbo C"
>
> But again, I'm not sure how to understand this... Does it mean
> "impossible to do", or "should work anyway"? Or maybe I am supposed to
> manually correct the stack pointer and/or base pointer myself? This I
> can only keep guessing. :/
>
> Mateusz
Not true.

Diomidis Spinellis DOS TRACE utility makes use of it...
You can find the code on the net...

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Stack overflow: how to monitor stack usage? Mateusz Viste <mateusz.viste@localhost> - 2014-07-24 21:20 +0200
  Re: Stack overflow: how to monitor stack usage? Johann Klammer <klammerj@NOSPAM.a1.net> - 2014-07-24 22:08 +0200
    Re: Stack overflow: how to monitor stack usage? Mateusz Viste <mateusz.viste@localhost> - 2014-07-25 08:20 +0200
      Re: Stack overflow: how to monitor stack usage? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-07-25 04:34 -0400
        Re: Stack overflow: how to monitor stack usage? Mateusz Viste <mateusz.viste@localhost> - 2014-07-25 12:53 +0200
      Re: Stack overflow: how to monitor stack usage? Johann Klammer <klammerj@NOSPAM.a1.net> - 2014-07-25 12:07 +0200
        Re: Stack overflow: how to monitor stack usage? Mateusz Viste <mateusz.viste@localhost> - 2014-07-25 12:48 +0200
          Re: Stack overflow: how to monitor stack usage? Johann Klammer <klammerj@NOSPAM.a1.net> - 2014-07-25 13:18 +0200
            Re: Stack overflow: how to monitor stack usage? Mateusz Viste <mateusz.viste@localhost> - 2014-07-25 14:06 +0200
              Re: Stack overflow: how to monitor stack usage? Johann Klammer <klammerj@NOSPAM.a1.net> - 2014-07-25 14:48 +0200
                Re: Stack overflow: how to monitor stack usage? Mateusz Viste <mateusz.viste@localhost> - 2014-07-25 15:03 +0200
              Re: Stack overflow: how to monitor stack usage? Johann Klammer <klammerj@NOSPAM.a1.net> - 2014-07-25 14:59 +0200
                Re: Stack overflow: how to monitor stack usage? Mateusz Viste <mateusz.viste@localhost> - 2014-07-25 15:08 +0200
  Re: Stack overflow: how to monitor stack usage? Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll> - 2014-07-25 00:24 +0200
    Re: Stack overflow: how to monitor stack usage? Mateusz Viste <mateusz.viste@localhost> - 2014-07-25 08:32 +0200
  Re: Stack overflow: how to monitor stack usage? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-07-25 01:42 -0400
    Re: Stack overflow: how to monitor stack usage? Mateusz Viste <mateusz.viste@localhost> - 2014-07-25 08:45 +0200
  Re: Stack overflow: how to monitor stack usage? Mateusz Viste <mateusz.viste@localhost> - 2014-07-25 21:26 +0200
    Re: Stack overflow: how to monitor stack usage? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-07-25 16:28 -0400

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