Re: [Qemu-devel] getting rid of coroutine-gthread?

[Brad Smith]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 07:24:35PM +0100, Andreas F?rber wrote:
> Am 11.01.2013 19:11, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> > Brad and Peter,
> > 
> > as far as I know OpenBSD and Linux/ARM were the main users of
> > coroutine-gthread.  Do you think we could dump it and rely on
> > coroutine-sigaltstack only?  The differences in signal handling of the
> > gthread implementation always worried me.
> > 
> > What versions of OpenBSD would we have to drop support for?  Is that
> > acceptable to you?
> 
> No, I believe there is explicit code in configure to force the GThread
> implementation on Mac OS X.

That is to skip over testing for the ucontext implementation. There was
a build issue with the sigaltstack implementation but it was fixed
relatively recently.

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