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From: tim@proton.amd.com (Tim Olson)
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Subject: Re: Longjmping back, and back again; Coroutines in C
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Date: 21 Nov 89 15:01:52 GMT
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In article <457@enea.se> jerker@helios.se (Jerker W}gberg) writes:
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| I am trying to implement coroutines using plain C. My
| application is not time critical, so there is no need for speed,
| being portable is far more important. It would be great if there
| was a way to switch stacks of the processes using just C.

Sorry, but there just isn't a way that is portable to all
architectures; there is almost always some assembly-language involved.

| 2. Are there more machines out there that probably will throw up
|    when executing this code, apart from CPU's where the stack is
|    growing upward instead of downward. This can be taken care of,
|    but I did not want to clutter the example below.

Here's an example of one:  The Am29000 (32-bit RISC processor) uses a
large number of registers as a "stack cache", and spills and fills
these to/from an area in memory when it overflows.  Another (separate)
memory stack holds non-scalar data, such as arrays and large
structures.  Your routine would only attempt to swap the memory stack,
leaving the register stack cache alone.

	-- Tim Olson
	Advanced Micro Devices
	(tim@amd.com)