[M3devel] User-level threading

[Olaf Wagner]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 04:12:47PM -0400, Tony Hosking wrote:
> In looking at things again, I am more and more convinced that  
> ThreadPosix should be implemented against the standard API for  
> makecontext/getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext.  Platforms that do not  
> provide these will need to provide an equivalent implementation of  
> these routines, similar to what you suggest.  Right now, I know all of
> SOLgnu, I386_DARWIN, LINUXLIBC6, FreeBSD should have the necessary  
> support.

I think a `standard' implementation using makecontext/getcontext/...
would be the best. For those platforms that do not support that,
we can still use a C or assembler implementation.

I would strongly vote for keeping user-level threading, too.

Olaf
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