On 14 March 2013 10:53, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > Il 14/03/2013 11:04, Peter Maydell ha scritto: >> I think coroutines are dreadful and we should really not be moving >> towards greater use of them. They're just really really not portable >> and they don't fit with the C language, and they're a constant source >> of problems.(For instance I have a bug I need to look into where we >> seem to hang using the gthread coroutine backend but not sigaltstack.) > > The gthread coroutine backend is really more for debugging than anything > else. It works for qemu-io/img, but not for QEMU. Good that you > actually found proof. :)
If it's not supposed to work we shouldn't let configure default to it (and actually I'd argue we should drop it completely...) -- PMM