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> From: hosking@cs.purdue.edu<BR>> Subject: Re: [M3devel] platform/build_dir is a big tuple?<BR>> <BR>> On Jan 23, 2008, at 2:49 AM, Jay wrote:<BR>> <BR>> > Oh, sorry, Modula-3 has never to my knowledge used user/vtalarm <BR>> > threads.<BR>> <BR>> ThreadPosix uses user/vtalarm threads. Swicthing is done using <BR>> setjmp/longjmp or setcontext/getcontext depending on platform. ON <BR>> modern POSIX platforms it should always use the latter.<BR><BR>
Oops, I meant on Windows!<BR>
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The use of setjmp/longjmp is not ANSI C conformant, right? I kind of suspect how it'd work without having looked it but I don't have quite in my head. Will look later and know better, just curious, no matter.<BR>
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