Re: C calls Lua or Lua calls C?

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 19/01/2011 11.35, Steve Litt wrote:
> In general, when game programmers use C and Lua, to they fire up a C program
> that calls a Lua script, or do they fire up a Lua script that calls a C
> program, or are both commonly done?

In adventure games for a resource-constrained device, I used a simple 
C++ scheduler (called from the frame loop) to launch or resume Lua 
coroutines, which in turn called back the C++ game primitives through a 
plain C interface. I kept game data on the Lua side.

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  Enrico