Re: [9fans] rsc's libtask on embedded

["steve@quintile.net" <steve@quintile.net>]

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I looked at proto, they are just state machines pretending to be threads (imho) - not my style.

libtask for me, I hope I can slice it a little and put the non-bear-metal bits in seperate files so I can offer the changes back.

co routines plus channels is exactly what I want.

-Steve





> On 9 Jul 2015, at 16:58, Joseph Stewart <joseph.stewart@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> One other thing that I've looked at but never used is Adam Dunkels' "protothreads" (http://dunkels.com/adam/pt/) although you'd still need to roll your own channel library.
> 
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
>> The system I am trying to add libtask to has no runtime other than libc.
>> 
>> Corrently it is an even based system that uses a "min main loop" and
>> a twisty maze of nested state machines that all look the same.
>> 
>> Hence my desire to add co-routines + channels (i.e. exactly what libtask is)
>> to it. I have no need for the file or network modules but those are easily removed.
>> 
>> I don't have the context calls but I do have setjmp/longjmp so that is what I
>> am trying to use.
>> 
>> I will shout if it works out.
>> 
>> -Steve
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