http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46986
--- Comment #27 from Jack Howarth <howarth at nitro dot med.uc.edu> 2012-02-16 16:22:02 UTC --- (In reply to comment #26) > I think it would be great if somebody would tell me something I can used > instead of makecontext/getcontext/setcontext. Unless somebody can come up > with > one, then I think the only alternative is to write our own processor-specific > versions and distribute them with libgo. > > The functions were removed from POSIX not because there was any adequate > replacement, but because they suffer from some design deficiencies. Would implementing "cooperative threading" with pthreads, perhaps with conditional variables, as described in... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4298986/is-there-something-to-replace-the-ucontext-h-functions be appropriate?
