Re: the gc

[David Jones <drj@...>]

On 11 Aug 2006, at 14:19, D Burgess wrote:

> > A (lua) function only has one environment.  If you remove it then
> > that affects all activations of that function which may or may not be
> > running in multiple threads.
>
> 1. load()
> 2. setfenv() of the function
> 3. lua_newthread()
> 4. lua_resume(L,0)
>
> If the sequence(2 thru 4) is repeated for 2 different threads, I get
> two different  functions (according to debug) and two different
> environments.
>
> I am still confused.

Me too.

What is executing steps 1 through 4?  Some C code?

In step 2 what function are you setfenving?

In step 4 what function forms the thread's main thread?

drj