RE: Any documentation on Lua's bytecode instruction set or VM?

["Bilyk, Alex" <ABilyk@...>]

Cannot resist.:) If ANSI C is what you spend your days talking, than the doc file is called LVM.C and from there you can follow other relevant document files in Lua source distribution. OTOH, I have never seen a suggestion on this list to look elsewhere.
 
Alex.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Wilson [mailto:developir@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 4:01 PM
To: Lua list
Subject: Re: Any documentation on Lua's bytecode instruction set or VM?

I realize that the Lua VM may not be general purpose and the
task may not be easy, but even still, I was wondering if the
VM is documented anywhere.

--- Rob Kendrick <lua-l@nun.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 23:49, Joe Wilson wrote:
> > I'm thinking about writing a Javascript-like front end
> > for the Lua VM.  Is there a definitive guide to Lua's
> > bytecode instruction set, or is this a case of
> > "Use The Source, Luke"?
>
> The usual answer to this is that Lua's VM is not a general purpose one,
> and is designed strictly for executing Lua, and writing compilers for
> other languages is tricky at best.



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