Re: Threads/Coroutines for DOS

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From: Steve Resnick
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 16:15

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In article <715992030snx@cotswold.demon.co.uk> nigel@cotswold.demon.co.uk (Nigel Roles) writes:
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>In article <1992Sep8.050225.1013@iti.gov.sg> stan@iti.gov.sg (Tan See Mong) writes:
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>> 
>> I need a (p.d.) threads package for DOS for the project I'm working on.
>> I checked out CTASK by Thomas Wagner -- it's a great piece of work
>> but a little too heavyweight.  All that's required here is non-premeptive
>> coroutines that will work with Borland 3.0 C/C++.  Is there anything like this
>> around?
>> 
>> stan
>> 
>> 
>BC++ 3.1 reference manual on longjmp states it is sufficient for implementing
>coroutines.


setjmp/longjmp do save the program state, however, if your co-routines use
the stack, you will need to allocate a new stack. This is a little tricky.

I wrote a non-premptive task manager (mangler?) a while back. I will post
it if there is sufficient interest. 

Steve

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