Re: Lua Virtual Machine Spec?

[Zed Shaw <zedshaw@...>]

On Friday, May 2, 2003, at 11:24 AM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:

> > I was interested in playing with the Lua virtual machine and tyring to
> > compile some other languages for it.
>
> It will be interesting to see whether the particular semantics of Lua 
> fits
> other languages. Please report any results here.

Yeah, I thought it would be interesting too.  I'm starting with R 
(http://www.r-project.org) since it is "similar" in how it does things 
like objects, functions, environments, etc.  Should be fun.

> > Is there a specification for the VM I can read, even an old one?
>
> All there is are the comments in lopcodes.h . The Lua VM is a tool to 
> implement
> Lua, not a general purpose VM.

Alright, I'll read through that.  I guess I should probably start with 
writing a disassembler then.

> > Or, am I stuck reading code?  Thanks.
>
> Yes, you need to read lvm.c to see the details of semantics.

Thanks again.  I'll let you know what becomes of it.

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