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From: Wojtek Lerch <wojtek_l@yahoo.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Continuations in C?
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:38:20 -0400
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On 14/08/2011 11:57 AM, BGB wrote:
> interestingly, is seems what the OP wanted is partly defined here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setcontext

Even more interestingly, even though (as Wikipedia mentions) 
setcontext() is specified in POSIX.1-2001, the 2004 version of POSIX 
marks it as obsolescent and the 2008 version does not mention it at all. 
  Perhaps before adding it to C, it would be good to find out why POSIX 
decided to drop it.