hi, > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 07:31:59PM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: >> Joerg Sonnenberger <jo...@britannica.bec.de> wrote: >> >> > I maintain that trying to move contexts between threads is an inherently >> > bad idea and that it is a very inefficient interface for implementing >> > coroutines. I object to this change for the sake of misdesigned >> > software. >> >> Did you look at that test case? This is a nasty bug, and I think we need >> a way for user to opt out of that behavior. > > I don't agree with it being a nasty bug. Heck, document it as limitation > if you want. But essentially don't mix *context and pthread in this way, > it will create other interesting issues later.
what's the motivation to keep the limitation? the current bahaviour would benefit applications which use i386 %gs register for their own purposes. is it your concern? YAMAMOTO Takashi > > Joerg
