Re: Lua suspend, continue, stop

[Steve Dekorte <steve@...>]

>But what seems to be missing is a way for me to tell Lua to suspend and
>later to continue or stop execution. [...]
>
>Is there an API for this that I missed?
>
>No. This problem is related to multi-threading in Lua. The point here is that,
>when Lua calls a function (a Lua function), the interpreter calls itself
>recursively. So, when you get a break-point there is a lot of C stack behind
>you, not only Lua stack, and the only way to have a "suspend, continue, stop"
>feature is having this in C, too. Some people have changed the interpreter to
>avoid this recursive structure, but this is not a trivial task, and does not
>work for all cases (for instance, "dostring" and "dofile" must call the
>interpreter again...).
>
>-- Roberto

Ok, so how might I implement breakpoints? (points were I can stop Lua
execution, and view/change variables, etc and then continue Lua execution
where it left off)

Steve