Hi, I just stumbled upon GNU Pth...
I'm currently using makecontext and friends to implement a custom user-space cooperative scheduler which is to be used for modeling parallelism. Making and switching between contexts is enough for me, I really don't need any wrapping to blocking system calls, signals and etc. My problem is that makecontext is obsolete. This is partly because C99 obsoletes empty parentheses function declarations like void (*)(), and partly because ISO C standard committee is too lazy to amend it. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/makecontext.html Adding to that, I also doubt makecontext and friends aren't widely (correctly) implemented anyway. Basically I think pth_uctx_{create|make|switch|destroy} is all I would need from Pth. The question is, if I don't mind about all the bells and whistles of wrapping signals and system calls etc, should I use Pth instead of makecontext and friends or it isn't worth it? Thanks! -- Giovanni ______________________________________________________________________ GNU Portable Threads (Pth) http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/ Development Site http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/pth/ Distribution Files ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pth/ Distribution Snapshots ftp://ftp.ossp.org/pkg/lib/pth/ User Support Mailing List pth-users@gnu.org Automated List Manager (Majordomo) pth-users-requ...@gnu.org
