contiki-os/contiki

Migrate from protothreads 1.4 to protothreads 2.0

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Hi,

I've updated the protothreads 1.4 library that is currently used in contiki-os to protothreads library 2.0.

I have looked into the code of contiki-os and see no direct problems using this for contiki-os but leverages a view possible advantages:

  1. more control flow constructs like try catch finally, without the overhead.
  2. better handling of yielding functions.
  3. error handling by state with additional overhead.

I haven't been able to spot any problems for contiki-os using protothreads v2 as long it uses the lc-switch.h duff-device construct and NOT the lc-addrlabels.h construct. This is btw, prone to errors on the long run anyway.

You can find the protothreads v2 library as a module in the protoduino framework at:
https://github.com/jklarenbeek/protoduino

I was wondering what you would think about this change.

Regards,

Joham