Re: [ANN] LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta1

[Mark Hamburg <mark@...>]

On Nov 2, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Mike Pall wrote:

> YangFan wrote:
> > Hi, Mike Pall
> >
> > 	LuaJIT 2.0 requires iuplua failed with the error messages shown  
> > below:
> >
> > -- LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta1 -- Copyright (C) 2005-2009 Mike Pall. http://luajit.org/
> > -- JIT: ON CMOV SSE2 fold cse dce fwd dse narrow loop fuse
> > -- > require "iuplua"
> > -- attempt to call a nil value
> > -- stack traceback:
> > --         [C]: ?
> > --         [C]: in function 'require'
> > --         stdin:1: in main chunk
> > --         [C]: ?
>
> The IUP binaries (esp. imlua51.dll) apparently include hardcoded,
> bytecode-compiled Lua files. And they do not properly check for
> returned errors from luaL_loadbuffer().
>
> So what happens is that (obviously) loading the bytecode fails
> (it's incompatible), the errors get ignored and the initialization
> of the library fails with the above message.
>
> Solution: file a bug against IUP.

To what extent did you change the instruction set v to what extent did  
you change the encoding of the instruction set? (I'm thinking about  
whether a bytecode translator is even reasonable to consider.)

Mark