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Segfault with ucontext on macOS (#184, continued) #238

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Although #213, accepted in #184, did apparently fix part of the problem, Boost.Context's own example programs still segfault due to the _XOPEN_SOURCE issue described in that pull request: if a Boost.Context client includes (for example) a standard C++ header before a Boost.Context one, _XOPEN_SOURCE is not defined when the ucontext struct is defined, resulting in its definition having fewer fields than when _XOPEN_SOURCE is defined, as Boost.Context expects it to be. Thus the segfault.

For example, I fixed the fibonacci example's segfault by moving #include <boost/context/fiber.hpp> above the inclusions of the stdlib headers.

Seems like the best workaround at this point is to export -D_XOPEN_SOURCE to clients from Boost.Context's build.

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