[fpc-pascal] Portable coroutines

[rpzrpzrpz at gmail.com]

Maybe look at the coroutine implementation in Go (Golang).

Maybe a better refrence.  Maybe an optional switch in compiler so
you are not required to have all CPU architectures working on day 1.

Intel and ARM seem nice...

md

On 3/21/2015 4:29 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
>> Efficient implementation of coroutines requires CPU-specific code in the
>> RTL and possibly the compiler. However
>> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html suggests a
>> way that coroutines can be implemented in a portable fashion in C, how
>> can this be done in Object Pascal?
>
> Seems more an oddity than a system, but it relies heavily on preprocessor
> and fallthrough case.
>
> The preprocessor part can be done, just use whatever preprocessor
> (maybe even cpp) and then haul the resulting code through fpc.
>
> But there is no fallthrough case (and personally I think that is a good
> thing)
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