Re: Yielding Lua

[Peter Shook <pshook@...>]

Andrew Teirney wrote:
>  i just want to be able to load
> and execute a chunk with an infinite service loop, then jumping out of 
> the lua land every ms or so that i can service some devices, and then go 
> back to lua from where it left off.

Hi Andrew,

Just make these changes to my previous example.  Have your RTI to set a 
flag every x miliseconds.  Check the flag in the main loop of your Lua 
script, and then clear the flag and yield if the flag is set.

Cheers,

- Peter Shook

$ diff a.c b.c
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<     lua_State *C = lua_newthread(L);
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<     if (report(C, luaL_loadfile(C, argv[1]) )) exit(1);
---
>     if (report(L, luaL_loadfile(L, argv[1]) )) exit(1);
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<       if (report(C, lua_resume(C, 0) )) exit(2);
---
>       if (report(L, lua_resume(L, 0) )) exit(2);