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You can build coroutines from them, too, which is really cool and useful.

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I did! And the ergonomics are dreadful!

https://github.com/jaroslov/coro

I don't know why I still remember these, but if you need to build coroutines in C, ucontext.h might be a better tool:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/ucontext.h...

Those are deprecated.

I had only seen them in the context of userspace threading. I wonder what mainstream libs use them. Do you know of any?

Generators are a subset of coroutines, and coroutines are useful in lexing and parsing.

Whoops, I meant that use set/longjmp() to implement coroutines. My wording in retrospect was super unclear. Sorry!

I think you mean fibers, and no you can't.

Here is an implementation of coroutines on top of setjmp/longjmp: https://fanf.livejournal.com/105413.html

Looks more like an implementation of undefined behaviour to me.

The underlying implementations define the behavior here very well.

Well, I would not go that far. My coroutine hack relies on “unwarranted chumminess with the implementation” (http://c-faq.com/struct/structhack.html) and there are lots of incidental things that can break it. It is best treated as an example of the principles of thread switching and stack allocation.

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How does it work for arbitrary arguments? What about function pointers. What about calling a coroutine inside a coroutine?

It also has a stack managed in runtime. I'm not sure that would work for any other application than the fun example here.

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