Re: [Boost-users] Fwd: Boost coroutine/context libraries

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Fwd: Boost coroutine/context libraries
From: Oliver Kowalke (oliver.kowalke_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-01-18 08:54:20

2017-01-18 2:20 GMT+01:00 Gregory Laird <glaird_at_[hidden]>:

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> Subject: Boost coroutine/context libraries
> From: Gregory Laird <glaird_at_[hidden]>
> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 17:10:57 -0800
> Newsgroup: gmane.comp.lib.boost.user
>
> I am trying to write a cooperative task scheduler in c++ and I have
> discovered the boost context and coroutine libraries.  I have written these
> sorts of schedulers many times in assembly language so I appreciate the
> issues in the methodology.  I have written lots of c code but am less
> versed
> in c++.
>
> I have been trying to find some straightforward examples of the libraries
> use without a lot of extraneous c++ language elements (e.g. binds, lambdas,
> etc.).  I did find one example
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11716291/boost-context-class
>
> that is very nice, but it will not compile now with the current boost
> library.  I get an error saying that boost::context::fcontext_t has been
> removed from the public api.
>
> Could someone direct me to some examples that demonstrate the context or
> coroutine functionality that would be easier to understand.
>
> I want to write a scheduler that is very similar to the example listed
> above
> where coroutines yeild back to a main caller which then chooses the next
> coroutine to continue its processing.
>

- I would use boost.context instead of boost.coroutine(2) for implementing
a scheduler
- boost.context contains an directory ('example') which does contains not
too complicated C++ code