# Overview

## Features

The Resource Analyzer supports the following features:

- Analysis of either a single ELF file or multiple program files stored in a source code directory structure
- Listing of program functions (sorted by name and by size)
- Listing of function call paths (sorted by cumulative stack use)
- Listing of unknown functions

## Limitations

The Resource Analyzer is intended for use in calculating the worst-case stack requirements of a program’s software threads. However, the following limitations make this task more difficult:

- The mechanisms for thread creation and stack allocation are specific to the operating system (OS) that is used with the program
- The wrappers used by the program to access the OS are also OS-specific

The Resource Analyzer cannot identify which code trees have separate stacks allocated for them and which do not. In practice, this is not a problem because software threads typically appear in the Resource Analyzer as both root nodes and the largest consumers of stack memory. Thus, using the Resource Analyzer to list a program’s functions sorted by cumulative stack use will cause the software threads to appear at the top of the list.

Last Published: Oct 06, 2026

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