Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] port network layer onto glib

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 19/03/2013 11:38, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
> On 19 March 2013 10:34, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Il 19/03/2013 11:12, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>>> Threads are supported by the language runtime provided on all
>>> the systems we support, which is why they are reasonably usable.
>>> When you've persuaded glibc, MacOSX libc and Windows to implement
>>> coroutines please come back and let me know :-)
>>
>> Windows supports them (it calls them fibers) and glibc does on many
>> architectures (all but ARM, basically).
> 
> If you mean ucontext, I'm not sure I'd call that coroutine
> support at the library level (and we did implement it on
> ARM glibc).

Yes, I mean ucontext, more precisely makecontext/setcontext.  Portably
creating a new stack is really the crux of coroutine support.

Paolo