My new article in ACCU’s CVu magazine describes how investigating a crash in a popular open source library led to the discovery of a change in behaviour in the C runtime library implementation that could have a significant detrimental impact on applications using C runtime locales across multiple threads that are compiled with Visual C++ 2012 & 2013 – http://accu.org/var/uploads/journals/CVu264.pdf#page=12
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Lightweight Cooperative Multitasking with Boost.Context
I’m writing this in response to Kenny Kerr’s article Lightweight Cooperative Multitasking with C++ in the August 2012 issue of MSDN Magazine, in which Kenny describes a method of implementing cooperative multitasking in C++.
What is Cooperative Multitasking?
This is a method of achieving concurrency in an application without using multiple threads. The basic idea is that you can have multiple tasks running on just a single thread. Now of course only one of these tasks can be running at any one time, so each task must perform some work and then explicitly yield to another task.
Ideally whatever method is used for beginning tasks and yielding should automatically provide a separate context for each task. That is, each task should have its own stack and register data.
Why Kenny’s Article is Cool
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