Monitoring call stack size in Visual Studio

Question

Is there a way to monitor the call stack size in Visual Studio ? A call stack window is provided while running but does not show the size of the stack. I am using C++ and fa

Answer 1

There are a few ways:

1. Examine ESP in the watch window. You can do this by watching @esp in the watch window. Compare this to what ESP was at the start of the process.
2. Similarly, examine the address of stack-allocated variables in first / last stack frames.

Note that the stack is usually allocated backwards, so as the stack grows, ESP gets smaller and smaller.