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- Subject: Re: CallInfo and Proto invariants
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 14:44:26 -0300
> I understand that L->top changes across function calls, but can
> ci->top for a given frame also change?
grep 'ci->top *=' l*.[ch]
> Is it that 'maxstacksize' represents the number of registers that must
> be left on the current stack frame when a new stack frame is pushed?
It represents the total number of registers that a function needs. (The
name is reminecent of when the VM was stack based.)
-- Roberto
