Re: [boost] [context] 4 days left on Boost.Context mini-review

Subject: Re: [boost] [context] 4 days left on Boost.Context mini-review
From: Oliver Kowalke (oliver.kowalke_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-01-09 12:48:20

Am 09.01.2012 18:36, schrieb Robert Ramey:
> Giovanni Piero Deretta wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Robert Ramey<ramey_at_[hidden]>  wrote:
>> Note that Boost.Context has a much more
>> comprehensive set of backends: while Boost.Coroutine only had a Linux
>> x86 asm backend and relied on fibers or makecontext for portability,
> I"m a window ms user and I found this unsatisfactory so I re-implemented
> the context switch in inline assembly.  This had the effect of making the
> library header only.  Is it really necessary that Boost.Context be a
> compiled
> library?
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> Robert Ramey
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inline assembly is not allways supported - for instance newer version of 
MS VC on x86_64 and itanium:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4ks26t93.aspx

Oliver