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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,

On 5/7/2019 9:36 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
> On 07/05/2019 07:47, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>
>> On 5/6/2019 9:02 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
>>> On 06/05/2019 09:48, Jeff Young wrote:
>>>> 1) I hate the coroutines.  They truncate backtraces in the debugger.
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> How about using ucontext.h on Unices (Linux/OSX) and WinFiber API on
>>> Windows? I have working implementation of the latter already in the MSVC
>>> branch. Are there any reasons to not use ucontext under Linux/OSX?
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>
>> I don't think we should be tackling this for v6.  Our v6 task list is
>> plenty long already.  Let's shelve this discussion until v7 so we can
>> take our time and come up with a plan that wont be too disruptive.
> 
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> I don't have any plans to rewrite the coroutine code during V6
> development cycle or doing any other radical changes. The only stuff I
> want to add is:
> - winfiber backend (already done), which removes assembly code for
> Win32/Win64 - the last obstacle for easy MSVC builds.

I'm assuming this wont break gcc builds on windows.

> - proper caller address in the stack frame (so that Jeff will see full
> stack traces)
> 
> Both of these changes are relatively minor.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tom
>