Re: [boost] [Coroutine] What happened to WINFIBERS?

1) Calling functions like GetModuleFileName, GetTimeZoneInformation without BOOST_USE_WINFIBERS was leading to crash in the past (see https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/10657 ). Looks like it is fixed now, but will this fix work in future Windows versions? Can they change something in Windows 11 so that old application using Boost.Context will crash? 2) I have an application that (knowing BOOST_USE_WINFIBERS is on) uses ::GetCurrentFiber(). Could you please recommend on how to migrate it to upcoming Boost? execution_context::current looks promising, but it is only available in v1, not in v2 (which is default). Should I compile with BOOST_EXECUTION_CONTEXT=1? What is disadvantage of this? 3) There is CreateFiberEx that allows to reserve for example 1GB (x64) of memory for fiber stack, but commit only small portion of it. Isn't this good alternative for segmented stacks on Windows? 4) Could Boost.Context be made header-only using Windows fibers? 5) MS can add fibers support to VS debugger, or add performance counters related to fibers. 2016-04-11 10:16 GMT+03:00 Oliver Kowalke :

2016-04-11 8:00 GMT+02:00 Tobias Loew :

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When testing 1.61 beta I couldn't find any reference to BOOST_USE_WINFIBERS in the sources and also the WinFibers implementation-file "execution_context_winfib.ipp" was missing. Has support for windos-fibers been removed?

yes

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