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Implementation Description

Some articles describing the implementation:

• [The implementation of Lua 5.0] (see also [Lua Documentation])

Using Lua Tables Apart from Lua

Here's how to use only Lua's table implementation outside Lua.

/* tabletest.c - tested on Lua 5.1.3 */
#include "ltable.h"

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <assert.h>

/* Error handling */
void luaG_runerror (lua_State *L, const char *fmt, ...) {
  va_list argp;
  va_start(argp, fmt);
  vfprintf(stderr, fmt, argp);
  va_end(argp);
  exit(1);
}
void *luaM_toobig (lua_State *L) {
  luaG_runerror(L, "memory allocation error: block too big");
  return NULL;
}

/* Memory allocation */
void *luaM_realloc_ (lua_State *L, void *block, size_t osize, size_t nsize) {
  lua_assert((osize == 0) == (block == NULL));

  if (nsize == 0) {
    free(block);
    block = NULL;
  }
  else block = realloc(block, nsize);

  if (block == NULL && nsize > 0)
    luaG_runerror(L, "not enough memory");
  lua_assert((nsize == 0) == (block == NULL));
  return block;
}

/* There is no global state (L) to link allocated tables to, so do nothing. */
void luaC_link (lua_State *L, GCObject *o, lu_byte tt) { }
void luaC_barrierback (lua_State *L, Table *t) { }

int main()
{
  Table * h;
  lua_State * L = NULL;
  int i;

  h = luaH_new (NULL, 0, 0);

  /* h[5] = 10 */
  setnvalue(luaH_setnum(L, h, 5), 10);
  assert(luaH_getn(h) == 0);

  /* h[1] = 2 */
  setnvalue(luaH_setnum(L, h, 1), 2);
  assert(luaH_getn(h) == 1);

  /* iterate over table keys 1..10 */
  for(i=1; i<=10; i++) {
    const TValue * v = luaH_getnum(h, i);  /* = h[i] */
    double f = nvalue(v);
    assert(f == ((i == 1) ? 2 : (i == 5) ? 10 : 0));
    assert(v != NULL || f == 0);
    printf("%d = %f\n", i, f);
  }

  luaH_free(L, h);

  printf("done\n");

  return 0;
}

Also, in lobject.c, add "#ifndef SKIP ..... #endif" around the pushstr, luaO_pushvfstring, luaO_pushfstring, and luaO_chunkid functions to avoid link errors due to extra dependencies.

Compile with

gcc -DSKIP tabletest.c ltable.c  lobject.c

--DavidManura