Coroutines in C

[Peter da Silva]

In article <10747 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> In article <5695 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >> What sort of problems do you want coroutines for?
[actually someone else wrote that]

> >Mainly for the sort of event-loop programming endemic to windowing systems.

> Ah, you raise an interesting point.  EVENT LOOPS SUCK.

#pragma begin arthur-dent-voice
Yes, well that's the point isn't it?
#pragma end arthur-dent-voice

Going to threads is a moderately nice way to work around the problem.
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