Re: [PATCH] coroutine: add libucontext as external library

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 11:24:08AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 09/03/21 10:59, Joelle van Dyne wrote:
> > Does it make a difference if this is provided as an option and not as
> > a replacement? Would it make sense to add some warning at configure
> > time? Right now none of the concurrency backends are supported on iOS
> > and it's possible support will go away on macOS as well in the future.
> > QEMU would not be able to run at all.
> 
> The alternative is to use a handwritten backend, it would be necessary
> anyway for CET support.
> 
> You can find the patches at
> https://patchew.org/QEMU/20190504120528.6389-1-pbonzini@redhat.com/

It sure would be nice if someone could take the QEMU coroutine impls
and spin them out into a "libcoroutine" for reuse. We use coroutines
across QEMU, SPICE-GTK, GTK-VNC and all have different featureset and
QEMU's seems the best in general, especially as you start adding the
CET stuff.

Regards,
Daniel
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