On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:55:01PM -0500, Jan Harkes wrote: > > In any case, this is the non-trivial part of LWP. There are several > 'recently introduced' portable C functions such as setjmp/longjmp and > even better setcontext/getcontext. Ideally LWP would use those in > preference to the assembly routines, except that getcontext and longjmp > really don't match the semantics of returnto. At a first try, I > couldn't (easily) implement either one given the other. >
Would it not be better to use another recently introduced library called pthreads? ;) The arla people have a pthread'ified version of lwp which would mean that lwp would be immediately portable to all platforms that support libpthread without having to hack assembly language.... having done that for NetBSD/amd64 I can tell you that would be a real bonus. -- Brett Lymn
