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Chapter 1. Context

Oliver Kowalke

Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

Table of Contents

Overview
Requirements
Context switching with fibers
Implementations: fcontext_t, ucontext_t and WinFiber
Class fiber
Context switching with call/cc
Implementations: fcontext_t, ucontext_t and WinFiber
Class continuation
Stack allocation
Class protected_fixedsize
Class pooled_fixedsize_stack
Class fixedsize_stack
Class segmented_stack
Class stack_traits
Class stack_context
Support for valgrind
Support for sanitizers
Support for stack protection
Support for shadow stack protection
Struct preallocated
Performance
Architectures
Cross compiling
Rationale
Other APIs
x86 and floating-point env
Reference
Acknowledgments

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