RE: lua5 palmos port (general 16 bit)

["Nick Trout" <nick@...>]

> Well after a rather long session I have compiles of Lua4 and Lua5
which
> run on a Palm (in the emulator on a PalmOS4 debug ROM) which
succesfully
> run a simple script.
> lua_dostring(L, "fu=42; bar=69; jfrg=fu*bar;")
> 
> I do not want to post the port publically yet as I 'borrowed' a few
> snippets of code from various places which will need to be credited or
> rewritten before it is made available. Those that want me to email you
> the source drop me an email. It is probably wise to warn you that this
> port has been sponsered by several very strong cups of coffee and it
is
> not pretty. In order to use it you will have to be sufficiently
> competant with the gcc tool chain to handle sections. The sections are
> imaginatively called luasect1, luasect2 and luasect3. No attempt has
> been made to make sure things that call each other are in the same
> section.
> 
> Having succesfully exhausted my capacity to think can someone please
let
> me know how I run a Lua script that I precompiled with luac. Is the
byte
> code platform  independant? I compiled my lua script with luac under
> Win2000 but I want to load it as a binary resource on PalmOS and pass
it
> to Lua.

It believe it is platform independent assuming that the float format is
the same on both platforms (or emulation). Lua should handle endianess
for you. 

You should make sure that llimits.h has the same parameters, and you are
using the same flags (e.g. Lua number format) for both the Palm Lua
target and the win32 luac exe. 

You should be able to just "do" the binary string as Lua should
recognise it as a Lua binary. 

Nick