Boost
C++ Libraries
...one of the most highly
regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the
world.
— Herb Sutter and Andrei
Alexandrescu, C++
Coding Standards
This is an older version of Boost and was released in 2018. The current version is 1.89.0.
Some newer compiler (for instance MSVC 10 for x86_64 and itanium) do not support inline assembler. [1]. Inlined assembler generates code bloating which is not welcome on embedded systems.
Boost.Context provides the low level API fcontext_t which is implemented in assembler to provide context swapping operations. fcontext_t is the part to port to new platforms.
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Context switches do not preserve the signal mask on UNIX systems. |
fcontext_t is an opaque pointer.