Segmentation fault and huge SRAM need for Serial.println

Question

I have written my own 'assert' since I want to use it for both Windows and Arduino. The class is called from many files (about 10).

AssertUtils.h:

#pragma once

#define assert(expr) AssertUtils::Assert2((expr), (__func__), (__FILE__), (__LINE__));

class AssertUtils
{
public:
    static void Assert2(bool expression, const char* funcName, const char* fileName, int line);
};

AssertUtils.cpp:

#include "AssertUtils.h"
#include "Arduino.h"

/* static */ void AssertUtils::Assert2(bool expression, const char* funcName, const char* fileName, int line)
{
    if (!expression)
    {
        Serial.println(funcName);
        Serial.println(fileName);
        Serial.println(line, DEC);
        Serial.flush();

        // Abort program execution.
        abort();
    }
}

When I compile this, the SRAM usage is 1469 bytes (together with the rest of my sketch and classes).

When I comment the line below, I get a segmentation fault in a random assert call (when I comment out that call, I get it in the next, etc.).

    //Serial.println(funcName);

When I also comment out the second print statement, the compiler reports only 1137 bytes SRAM usage (which I expect since this was about equal until before I added the Assert class).

    //Serial.println(funcName);
    //Serial.println(fileName);

Questions:

1. How can I get rid of the segmentation fault?
2. How can it be that about 332 bytes are used for one two additional print statements? (maybe related to the const char* buffering (?)

Answer 1

Note, this answer is not MY answer, but approximately the combination of the first 5 comments from my original question.

What I did was:

• (Juraj) Changed the compiler version to 6.21
• (juraj) Added an F in F(__FILE__)
• (KIIV) Removed func; this did not work with the F flash helper, but I can find back the code anyway unambiguously because of the file name + line number.
• (Majenko) I removed the class and use a macro. This costs some more Flash memory (depending on the number of asserts I use, but I'm still around 40% (was 35%).

The SRAM usage is now 1125 bytes, even less than where I'm started with.

The resulting code is below:

#define assert(expression) \
  if (!(expression)) \
  { \
    Serial.println(F(__FILE__)); \
    Serial.println(__LINE__, DEC); \
    Serial.flush(); \
    abort(); \
  }