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Date:      Tue, 12 Dec 2017 19:25:49 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        rgrimes@freebsd.org, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
Cc:        Don Lewis <truckman@freebsd.org>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r326758 - in head/sys/i386: conf include
Message-ID:  <9484a39c-21f1-9174-11ce-54088c3f6099@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201712121701.vBCH153d087153@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <201712121701.vBCH153d087153@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>

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On 12/12/2017 19:01, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> We should probably start looking for those, something someone who is
> offerring help but doesnt know what they might be good at, but can
> read C code.  They could be utililized t simply scan through the
> code looking for this type of thing and bring it to the attention
> of a area of expertise commiter.

By the way, there are tools that can analyze binary code (e.g. a kernel binary
or a module) and determine stack requirements of each function.  I think that
debug symbols might be required too.

I am not sure if there are tools that can analyze stack requirements for
possible call chains rather than individual functions.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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