How do you implement Coroutines in C++

Question

I doubt it can be done portably, but are there any solutions out there? I think it could be done by creating an alternate stack and reseting SP,BP, and IP on function entry

Answer 1

On POSIX, you can use makecontext()/swapcontext() routines to portably switch execution contexts. On Windows, you can use the fiber API. Otherwise, all you need is a bit of glue assembly code that switches the machine context. I have implemented coroutines both with ASM (for AMD64) and with swapcontext(); neither is very hard.