On 20/04/17 08:30, Bernd Mueller wrote:
On 04/20/2017 09:40 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:>> Turning it around a
little: are there still FPC targets that don't have> threads? Having
coroutines would allow a native thread mechanism to be> implemented,
without relying on the underlying OS.
it would be really nice to have coroutines for the embedded targets like
AVR and ARM.

The Topspeed family of languages also demonstrated that a coroutine could be used as the target of an interrupt. However looking at the manual I see that when the interrupt arrived the association was removed, and I can't remember what it did with interrupt acknowledgement etc.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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