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Re: [RFC][PATCH] _UC_TLSBASE for all ports



On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 07:31:59PM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > I maintain that trying to move contexts between threads is an inherently
> > bad idea and that it is a very inefficient interface for implementing
> > coroutines. I object to this change for the sake of misdesigned
> > software.
> 
> Did you look at that test case? This is a nasty bug, and I think we need
> a way for user to opt out of that behavior.

I don't agree with it being a nasty bug. Heck, document it as limitation
if you want. But essentially don't mix *context and pthread in this way,
it will create other interesting issues later.

Joerg



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