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Re: Continuations in C?

Date 2011-08-15 09:48 +0200
From Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de>
Newsgroups comp.std.c
Subject Re: Continuations in C?
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Am 15.08.2011 05:38, schrieb Wojtek Lerch:
> 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.


POSIX had it as a portable means for user-level threading (for use with
makecontext() which was made obsolecsent the same way). POSIX now
provides real multi-threading (which is better than the
makecontext()/getcontext()/setcontext way(), since it can use parallel
hardware).

Philipp

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Continuations in C? Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2011-08-13 10:47 +0200
  Re: Continuations in C? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-13 03:02 -0700
    Re: Continuations in C? Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2011-08-13 13:19 +0200
      Re: Continuations in C? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-13 12:29 -0700
    Re: Continuations in C? Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2011-08-15 09:49 +0200
      Re: Continuations in C? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-16 10:53 -0700
  Re: Continuations in C? jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-08-14 10:13 +0200
    Re: Continuations in C? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-14 08:57 -0700
      Re: Continuations in C? Wojtek Lerch <wojtek_l@yahoo.ca> - 2011-08-14 23:38 -0400
        Re: Continuations in C? Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2011-08-15 09:48 +0200
          Re: Continuations in C? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-16 10:56 -0700
  Re: Continuations in C? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2011-08-30 15:36 -0700

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