Fair enough, and it's nice to fix the boost issue. I suppose if support ever becomes an issue we can consider replacing it _then_.
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 03:21:41PM +0100, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote: > On 21.01.2016 15:03, Chris Pavlina wrote: > > Hm, is this really something we want to get into? Nice to remove the > > dependency, but when something breaks in the future, do we have any/many > > developers who can support x86 assembly code? > > > > Concerning the support: I can do that, but there is absolutely nothing > to support. This library does just context switching and nothing else > and it contains no original code. In fact, it's generated from > boost::context by a script. It will never need an update unless: > - We decide to support a completely new HW platform. Porting anything > that boost::context already supports is trivial. I didn't include > MIPS/PPC/Sparc/ARM platform files because I couldn't test if they work. > - We change the compiler to something else than Clang/GCC. > - Intel changes the instruction set of their CPUs. > > > I really think that if we're going to have to support this, it should be > > something conceptually simpler, like an emulation of coroutines using a > > set of threads and locks. > > Have a look at the discussion between Lorenzo, Kristian and Torsten. > Emulating coroutines with threads can only bring more problems. > > Cheers, > Tom > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 02:42:05PM +0100, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> This patch replaces boost::context with a small library called > >> libcontext (derived from boost::context sources). It drops the > >> dependency on boost for the cost of one additional header file and cpp > >> file (taking inspiration from ClipperLib). > >> > >> I've tested the new context switching code on Linux, OSX (El Capitan) & > >> Windows (all OS 32-bit and 64-bit Intel). Supported compilers are GCC > >> and Clang. > >> > >> Let me know if Kicad builds and works correctly on your platforms... > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Tom > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
