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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2001-2009 Marc Alexander Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
 * 
 * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modifica-
 * tion, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
 * 
 *   1.  Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
 *       this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 * 
 *   2.  Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
 *       notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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 * 
 * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
 * WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MER-
 * CHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO
 * EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPE-
 * CIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
 * PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS;
 * OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
 * WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTH-
 * ERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED
 * OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 *
 * Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under the terms of
 * the GNU General Public License ("GPL") version 2 or any later version,
 * in which case the provisions of the GPL are applicable instead of
 * the above. If you wish to allow the use of your version of this file
 * only under the terms of the GPL and not to allow others to use your
 * version of this file under the BSD license, indicate your decision
 * by deleting the provisions above and replace them with the notice
 * and other provisions required by the GPL. If you do not delete the
 * provisions above, a recipient may use your version of this file under
 * either the BSD or the GPL.
 *
 * This library is modelled strictly after Ralf S. Engelschalls article at
 * http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/rse-pmt.ps. So most of the credit must
 * go to Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com>.
 *
 * This coroutine library is very much stripped down. You should either
 * build your own process abstraction using it or - better - just use GNU
 * Portable Threads, http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/.
 *
 */

/*
 * 2006-10-26 Include stddef.h on OS X to work around one of its bugs.
 *            Reported by Michael_G_Schwern.
 * 2006-11-26 Use _setjmp instead of setjmp on GNU/Linux.
 * 2007-04-27 Set unwind frame info if gcc 3+ and ELF is detected.
 *            Use _setjmp instead of setjmp on _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600.
 * 2007-05-02 Add assembly versions for x86 and amd64 (to avoid reliance
 *            on SIGUSR2 and sigaltstack in Crossfire).
 * 2008-01-21 Disable CFI usage on anything but GNU/Linux.
 * 2008-03-02 Switched to 2-clause BSD license with GPL exception.
 * 2008-04-04 New (but highly unrecommended) pthreads backend.
 * 2008-04-24 Reinstate CORO_LOSER (had wrong stack adjustments).
 * 2008-10-30 Support assembly method on x86 with and without frame pointer.
 * 2008-11-03 Use a global asm statement for CORO_ASM, idea by pippijn.
 * 2008-11-05 Hopefully fix misaligned stacks with CORO_ASM/SETJMP.
 * 2008-11-07 rbp wasn't saved in CORO_ASM on x86_64.
 *            introduce coro_destroy, which is a nop except for pthreads.
 *            speed up CORO_PTHREAD. Do no longer leak threads either.
 *            coro_create now allows one to create source coro_contexts.
 *            do not rely on makecontext passing a void * correctly.
 *            try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
 *            major code cleanup/restructuring.
 * 2008-11-10 the .cfi hacks are no longer needed.
 * 2008-11-16 work around a freebsd pthread bug.
 * 2008-11-19 define coro_*jmp symbols for easier porting.
 * 2009-06-23 tentative win32-backend support for mingw32 (Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
 */

#ifndef CORO_H
#define CORO_H

#define CORO_VERSION 2

/*
 * Changes since API version 1:
 * replaced bogus -DCORO_LOOSE with gramatically more correct -DCORO_LOSER
 */

/*
 * This library consists of only three files
 * coro.h, coro.c and LICENSE (and optionally README)
 *
 * It implements what is known as coroutines, in a hopefully
 * portable way. At the moment you have to define which kind
 * of implementation flavour you want:
 *
 * -DCORO_UCONTEXT
 *
 *    This flavour uses SUSv2's get/set/swap/makecontext functions that
 *    unfortunately only newer unices support.
 *
 * -DCORO_SJLJ
 *
 *    This flavour uses SUSv2's setjmp/longjmp and sigaltstack functions to
 *    do it's job. Coroutine creation is much slower than UCONTEXT, but
 *    context switching is often a bit cheaper. It should work on almost
 *    all unices.
 *
 * -DCORO_LINUX
 *
 *    Old GNU/Linux systems (<= glibc-2.1) only work with this implementation
 *    (it is very fast and therefore recommended over other methods, but
 *    doesn't work with anything newer).
 *
 * -DCORO_LOSER
 *
 *    Microsoft's highly proprietary platform doesn't support sigaltstack, and
 *    this automatically selects a suitable workaround for this platform.
 *    (untested)
 *
 * -DCORO_IRIX
 *
 *    SGI's version of Microsoft's NT ;)
 *
 * -DCORO_ASM
 *
 *    Handcoded assembly, known to work only on a few architectures/ABI:
 *    GCC + x86/IA32 and amd64/x86_64 + GNU/Linux and a few BSDs.
 *
 * -DCORO_PTHREAD
 *
 *    Use the pthread API. You have to provide <pthread.h> and -lpthread.
 *    This is likely the slowest backend, and it also does not support fork(),
 *    so avoid it at all costs.
 *
 * If you define neither of these symbols, coro.h will try to autodetect
 * the model. This currently works for CORO_LOSER only. For the other
 * alternatives you should check (e.g. using autoconf) and define the
 * following symbols: HAVE_UCONTEXT_H / HAVE_SETJMP_H / HAVE_SIGALTSTACK.
 */

/*
 * This is the type for the initialization function of a new coroutine.
 */
typedef void (*coro_func)(void *);

/*
 * A coroutine state is saved in the following structure. Treat it as an
 * opaque type. errno and sigmask might be saved, but don't rely on it,
 * implement your own switching primitive if you need that.
 */
typedef struct coro_context coro_context;

/*
 * This function creates a new coroutine. Apart from a pointer to an
 * uninitialised coro_context, it expects a pointer to the entry function
 * and the single pointer value that is given to it as argument.
 *
 * Allocating/deallocating the stack is your own responsibility.
 *
 * As a special case, if coro, arg, sptr and ssize are all zero,
 * then an "empty" coro_context will be created that is suitable
 * as an initial source for coro_transfer.
 *
 * This function is not reentrant, but putting a mutex around it
 * will work.
 */
void coro_create (coro_context *ctx, /* an uninitialised coro_context */
                  coro_func coro,    /* the coroutine code to be executed */
                  void *arg,         /* a single pointer passed to the coro */
                  void *sptr,        /* start of stack area */
                  long ssize);       /* size of stack area */

/*
 * The following prototype defines the coroutine switching function. It is
 * usually implemented as a macro, so watch out.
 *
 * This function is thread-safe and reentrant.
 */
#if 0
void coro_transfer (coro_context *prev, coro_context *next);
#endif

/*
 * The following prototype defines the coroutine destroy function. It is
 * usually implemented as a macro, so watch out. It also serves
 * no purpose unless you want to use the CORO_PTHREAD backend,
 * where it is used to clean up the thread. You are responsible
 * for freeing the stack and the context itself.
 *
 * This function is thread-safe and reentrant.
 */
#if 0
void coro_destroy (coro_context *ctx);
#endif

/*
 * That was it. No other user-visible functions are implemented here.
 */

/*****************************************************************************/

#if !defined(CORO_LOSER) && !defined(CORO_UCONTEXT) \
    && !defined(CORO_SJLJ) && !defined(CORO_LINUX) \
    && !defined(CORO_IRIX) && !defined(CORO_ASM) \
    && !defined(CORO_PTHREAD)
# if defined(WINDOWS)
#  define CORO_LOSER 1 /* you don't win with windoze */
# elif defined(__linux) && (defined(__x86) || defined (__amd64))
#  define CORO_ASM 1
# elif defined(HAVE_UCONTEXT_H)
#  define CORO_UCONTEXT 1
# elif defined(HAVE_SETJMP_H) && defined(HAVE_SIGALTSTACK)
#  define CORO_SJLJ 1
# else
error unknown or unsupported architecture
# endif
#endif

/*****************************************************************************/

#if CORO_UCONTEXT

# include <ucontext.h>

struct coro_context {
  ucontext_t uc;
};

# define coro_transfer(p,n) swapcontext (&((p)->uc), &((n)->uc))
# define coro_destroy(ctx) (void *)(ctx)

#elif CORO_SJLJ || CORO_LOSER || CORO_LINUX || CORO_IRIX

# if defined(CORO_LINUX) && !defined(_GNU_SOURCE)
#  define _GNU_SOURCE /* for linux libc */
# endif

# if !CORO_LOSER
#  include <unistd.h>
# endif

/* solaris is hopelessly borked, it expands _XOPEN_UNIX to nothing */
# if __sun
#  undef _XOPEN_UNIX
#  define _XOPEN_UNIX 1
# endif

# include <setjmp.h>

# if _XOPEN_UNIX > 0 || defined (_setjmp)
#  define coro_jmp_buf      jmp_buf
#  define coro_setjmp(env)  _setjmp (env)
#  define coro_longjmp(env) _longjmp ((env), 1)
# elif CORO_LOSER
#  define coro_jmp_buf      jmp_buf
#  define coro_setjmp(env)  setjmp (env)
#  define coro_longjmp(env) longjmp ((env), 1)
# else
#  define coro_jmp_buf      sigjmp_buf
#  define coro_setjmp(env)  sigsetjmp (env, 0)
#  define coro_longjmp(env) siglongjmp ((env), 1)
# endif

struct coro_context {
  coro_jmp_buf env;
};

# define coro_transfer(p,n) do { if (!coro_setjmp ((p)->env)) coro_longjmp ((n)->env); } while (0)
# define coro_destroy(ctx) (void *)(ctx)

#elif CORO_ASM

struct coro_context {
  void **sp; /* must be at offset 0 */
};

void __attribute__ ((__noinline__, __regparm__(2)))
coro_transfer (coro_context *prev, coro_context *next);

# define coro_destroy(ctx) (void *)(ctx)

#elif CORO_PTHREAD

# include <pthread.h>

extern pthread_mutex_t coro_mutex;

struct coro_context {
  pthread_cond_t cv;
  pthread_t id;
};

void coro_transfer (coro_context *prev, coro_context *next);
void coro_destroy (coro_context *ctx);

#endif

#endif