Re: [patch] dynamically link liblua to luac

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> In the below patch, I modified luac.c to take an approach somewhat
> like the luac.lua above, eliminating the dependencies on internal
> functions in the Lua library.

I did something similar as a proof-of-concept when I was writing luac.lua;
see the code below. With this change, luac.c no longer depends on *any*
internal function, except luaU_dump. It still need access to the contents
of L, though.

static const Proto* combine(lua_State* L, int n)
{
 if (n==1)
  return toproto(L,-1);
 else
 {
  int i;
  Proto* f;
  for (i=0; i<n; i++) lua_pushliteral(L,"(function()end)();");
  lua_concat(L,n);
  luaL_loadbuffer(L,lua_tostring(L,-1),lua_objlen(L,-1),"=(" PROGNAME ")");
  f=toproto(L,-1);
  for (i=0; i<n; i++) f->p[i]=toproto(L,i-n-2);
  return f;
 }
}

This version of combine is really much easier to read, maintain, and hack.
Let's see what happens to luac in 5.2...
--lhf