On 01/16/2014 03:19 PM, Oliver Kowalke wrote:
2014/1/16 Thomas Heller
It might not be very kind, but it reflects the current state of the library. In addition, the library is not useful on the advertised platforms. The PPC64 implementation of Boost.Context is not tested and does not work (sure it's not the fault of Fiber per se), for example.
boost.context is irrelevant in this discussion.
I don't think so. Boost.Fiber builts on context and without a working context implementation, the fiber is useless.
do you think I've a machine for each architecture at home? I can only write the code if requested by some users and I have to rely on the willing of community members to test the code on the specific hardware.
Absolutely. But context is shipped with code for PPC64 so it should be assumed it works.
You asked me about boost.context support of PPC64 and I told you that the code is untested from my side and boost-regression tests do not exist for PPC64. But you did not respond to my email. As I did with other users it hoped that we could fix the problem together but I didn't get any feedback from you - don't blame me.
Yes, I got side tracked. I am not blaming you for not delivering a PPC64 Boost.Context implementation. When i get back to the project where i need the context switch for PPC64, i will certainly get back to you. I was just trying to point to a case where Fiber is not working (with no indication in the docs or elsewhere). Sorry if you got the wrong impression.
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