Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] port network layer onto glib

[Peter Maydell]

On 14 March 2013 10:53, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Il 14/03/2013 11:04, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>> I think coroutines are dreadful and we should really not be moving
>> towards greater use of them. They're just really really not portable
>> and they don't fit with the C language, and they're a constant source
>> of problems.(For instance I have a bug I need to look into where we
>> seem to hang using the gthread coroutine backend but not sigaltstack.)
>
> The gthread coroutine backend is really more for debugging than anything
> else.  It works for qemu-io/img, but not for QEMU.  Good that you
> actually found proof. :)

If it's not supposed to work we shouldn't let configure default
to it (and actually I'd argue we should drop it completely...)

-- PMM