Re: [boost] Is there any interest in a library for actor programming?

Subject: Re: [boost] Is there any interest in a library for actor programming?
From: Dominik Charousset (dominik.charousset_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-23 18:02:25

> [ 20%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/libboost_actor.dir/src/cs_thread.cpp.o
> /home/evansl/prog_dev/boost/sandbox/boost.actor.dir/boost.actor/src/cs_thread.cpp:154:61: error: no member named 'minimum_stacksize' in
> 'boost::coroutines::basic_standard_stack_allocator<boost::coroutines::stack_traits>'
>        auto mss = static_cast<intptr_t>( stack_allocator::minimum_stacksize()
>                                           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
> /home/evansl/prog_dev/boost/sandbox/boost.actor.dir/boost.actor/src/cs_thread.cpp:158:13: error: assigning to 'context' (aka 'void **') from incompatible
>      type 'fcontext_t' (aka 'void *')
>        ctx = ctxn::make_fcontext(sinf.sp, sinf.size, cst_trampoline);
>            ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> /home/evansl/prog_dev/boost/sandbox/boost.actor.dir/boost.actor/src/cs_thread.cpp:160:24: error: member reference base type 'ctxn::fcontext_t'
>      (aka 'void *') is not a structure or union
>                    ctx->fc_stack.sp,
>                    ~~~^ ~~~~~~~~
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> ~/prog_dev/boost/sandbox/boost.actor.dir/boost.actor $
> 
> Please, how should I correct the errors?

What Version of Boost are you using? Did they change the Boost.Context API again? Disabling it should help: ./configure --disable-context-switching

This option turns off the context-switching actor implementation, i.e., actors that use the blocking API but still participate in the cooperative scheduling.