Re: Coroutines with C code that uses callbacks

[Irayo <irayo.lt@...>]

Dirk Feytons wrote:
> In other words: I would like the clean and simple iterator-style Lua
> code but make full use of the 'streaming' behavior of the C library.
> This means that in the end I need to be able to transfer the data that
> I receive in that callback to Lua somehow. However PiL2 is quite
> clear: you can only yield from C when it is called from Lua and the C
> function ends with 'return lua_yield(L, nres);' which ofcourse doesn't
> match the interface of the library.
Check out Coco, a true C-coroutines patch for Lua.  It involves patching 
the actual Lua source, but it's worked well for me so far when I've done 
similar tasks to what you're trying to do.

I think this will help with what you're trying to do.  Please ignore me 
if I am wrong. :-)

http://luajit.org/coco.html
says:
"* Yield from C functions and resume back to them."

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Irayo