How to see heap and stack usage of a function in c using valgrind?

Question

I am working on a embedded system. We have limited stack and heap in our embedded system typically 64k (ram). I am trying to use polar-ssl library calls. Is there any tools which tells how much stack and heap memory is used by a C function?

Is there any option is in valgrind which prints the following:

Stack and heap usage of a function.
Call trace of functions which calls internally malloc with no of bytes.

why dont u read Valgrind's document? – Jeegar Patel Apr 30 '12 at 09:19 — Jeegar Patel, Apr 30 '12 at 09:19
massif gives heap analysis (quite a lot of it, but usable). – BoBTFish Apr 30 '12 at 09:24 — BoBTFish, Apr 30 '12 at 09:24

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 30 '12 at 09:33

There is a valgrind tool massif that measures how much heap memory an application uses. Similarly memcheck can give you stack trace. More explanation here

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Linux_Tools_Project/Valgrind/User_Guide#Analyzing_Memcheck_Profile_Results

How to see heap and stack usage of a function in c using valgrind?

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