Re: Saving (part of) the lua state

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

In that case, luac saves the (invisible) main chunk of the file  
test.lua.  Which is a function that has your "state=" line as its  
contents.

Luac does not save runtime generated values.

-asko


Markus Heukelom kirjoitti 22.10.2007 kello 15:39:

> > luac does not save the lua_State: it saves functions.
>
> Sorry, I didn't mean the saving the lua_State, but just Lua value(s).
>
> If luac saves functions, then what happens if I do this:
>
> test.lua:
>
> state = {test = "value"}
>
>
> luac -o test.luac test.lua
>
> lua
> > dofile("test.luac")
> > print(state.test)
> value
>
> Obviously, state is not a function, but luac does save it, right?  
> Does it
> save _G as a function (closure) or something? (I looked a bit a the  
> output
> of luac -l test.luac)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Markus Heukelom