Coroutines: a "must know" for programmers (according to me)

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Coroutines: a "must know" for programmers (according to me)

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Some years ago I found a document by Simon Tatham with a coroutine.h source conaining a set C macros to make cooperative routines.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgta ... tines.html
I became a fan of those macros that let you make a sort of multi tasking. No need to waste precious real time deterministic xcore threads to run low priority tasks.
Very smart the way Duff's device is used.

Also I suggest a reading at protothread:
http://dunkels.com/adam/pt/about.html


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Post by sethu_jangala »

Thank you for sharing the information. Hopefully, the other members in the community also find the information useful.

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Post by segher »

These routines store all state globally, there can be only
one instance running consecutively; these aren't coroutines.
You could pass in a pointer to a struct to store the state in,
destroying all the neat syntactic sugar: but that does show
what you really have, namely an explicit state machine.

Don't the latest XC additions support cooperative threading
btw? I haven't more than glanced at it I'm afraid :-(
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Post by TSC »

Very interesting stuff Lele.

I think the XC addition segher mentioned is combinable functions. I haven't used that feature yet either, but it does sound similar to the information Lele linked to.
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Post by Lele »

Segher is right: the first set of macro is not for reentrant/recursive functions.
But there is also a set which stores local variables
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