/* Complete Context Control Copyright (C) 1991-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, if not, see . */ #include #include #include #include #include /* Set by the signal handler. */ static volatile int expired; /* The contexts. */ static ucontext_t uc[3]; /* We do only a certain number of switches. */ static int switches; /* This is the function doing the work. It is just a skeleton, real code has to be filled in. */ static void f (int n) { int m = 0; while (1) { /* This is where the work would be done. */ if (++m % 100 == 0) { putchar ('.'); fflush (stdout); } /* Regularly the @var{expire} variable must be checked. */ if (expired) { /* We do not want the program to run forever. */ if (++switches == 20) return; printf ("\nswitching from %d to %d\n", n, 3 - n); expired = 0; /* Switch to the other context, saving the current one. */ swapcontext (&uc[n], &uc[3 - n]); } } } /* This is the signal handler which simply set the variable. */ void handler (int signal) { expired = 1; } int main (void) { struct sigaction sa; struct itimerval it; char st1[8192]; char st2[8192]; /* Initialize the data structures for the interval timer. */ sa.sa_flags = SA_RESTART; sigfillset (&sa.sa_mask); sa.sa_handler = handler; it.it_interval.tv_sec = 0; it.it_interval.tv_usec = 1; it.it_value = it.it_interval; /* Install the timer and get the context we can manipulate. */ if (sigaction (SIGPROF, &sa, NULL) < 0 || setitimer (ITIMER_PROF, &it, NULL) < 0 || getcontext (&uc[1]) == -1 || getcontext (&uc[2]) == -1) abort (); /* Create a context with a separate stack which causes the function @code{f} to be call with the parameter @code{1}. Note that the @code{uc_link} points to the main context which will cause the program to terminate once the function return. */ uc[1].uc_link = &uc[0]; uc[1].uc_stack.ss_sp = st1; uc[1].uc_stack.ss_size = sizeof st1; makecontext (&uc[1], (void (*) (void)) f, 1, 1); /* Similarly, but @code{2} is passed as the parameter to @code{f}. */ uc[2].uc_link = &uc[0]; uc[2].uc_stack.ss_sp = st2; uc[2].uc_stack.ss_size = sizeof st2; makecontext (&uc[2], (void (*) (void)) f, 1, 2); /* Start running. */ swapcontext (&uc[0], &uc[1]); putchar ('\n'); return 0; }