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- Subject: Re: debug library
- From: "Pierre Chapuis" <catwell@...>
- Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 23:23:21 +0200
>> I understand, that there is no official documenation about the
>> underlying bytecode and the VM?! Or is there?
>
> http://www.lua.org/source/5.1/lopcodes.h.html
> http://www.lua.org/source/5.2/lopcodes.h.html
>
> That's all there is.
There is also
http://luaforge.net/docman/83/98/ANoFrillsIntroToLua51VMInstructions.pdf
which is helpful.
I have written a small Lua 5.2 bytecode parser in LuaJIT:
https://github.com/catwell/lualua But basically the best way to study the
5.2 bytecode is probably to start from the source code of luac (especially
dump.c),
--
Pierre 'catwell' Chapuis
