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[TIB]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win32_Thread_Information_Block
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[tibfail]: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8544
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The only supported way to implement user-mode context switching on Windows is to use [fibers][].
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The only supported way to implement user-mode context switching on Windows is [fibers][].
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There are no reasons the safe abstractions provided by libfringe could not be implemented on top
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of that; it is simply not yet done. This should be straightforward and an implementation is
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welcome.
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welcome. Note that while [UMS threads][] are capable of providing user-mode context switching,
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they involve managing scheduler threads to run UMS threads on, which is incompatible with
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libfringe's design.
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[fibers]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682661(v=vs.85).aspx
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[UMS threads]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd627187(v=vs.85).aspx
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