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Chapter 1. Context

Oliver Kowalke

Copyright © 2014 Oliver Kowalke

Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

Table of Contents

Requirements

Context switching with fibers

Implementations: fcontext_t, ucontext_t and WinFiber
Class fiber

Context switching with call/cc

Implementations: fcontext_t, ucontext_t and WinFiber
Class continuation

Class execution_context (version 2)

Class execution_context (version 1)

Stack allocation

Class protected_fixedsize
Class pooled_fixedsize_stack
Class fixedsize_stack
Class segmented_stack
Class stack_traits
Class stack_context
Support for valgrind

Struct preallocated

Performance

Architectures

Cross compiling

Other APIs
x86 and floating-point env

Acknowledgments

Last revised: December 05, 2018 at 20:08:06 GMT