On 08/18/2017 10:51 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 17/08/17 16:05, Avi Kivity wrote: >> >> On 08/15/2017 02:30 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote: >>> On 15 August 2017 at 12:29, Xi Ruoyao wrote: >>>> On 2017-08-15 12:23 +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote: >>>>> See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/n4680.pdf >>>> Oh really C++ is keeping developing new language features :) >>>> >>>> So would it be implemented in GCC 8? >>> Nobody is working on it so probably not. >> >> That's sad, it is such a compelling feature. >> >> I will probably switch to clang soon, despite losing concepts and a >> subjective preference for gcc, because of this feature. > > I've seen many odd things on the GCC lists, but this is one of the > oddest. Coroutines have been a feature of other programming languages > for 50 years, and at no point has anyone thought them worthwhile > enough to put them into C or C++. There are many coroutine implementations for C in the form of libraries or preprocessor hacks. Details might be a bit iffy, but no one seems to have felt a strong need for compiler support so far. Thanks, Florian
