Re: C functions in Lua coroutines

[Ziyao <ziyao@...>]

On 2023-03-28 14:28, Schmalzer, Lukas wrote:
> Currently there is no way to yield from C. This behavior is
> problematic for time critical applications, e.g., as in our
> application, the execution environment for machine sequences.

Starting from Lua 5.2, there is a way called continuation.
A longjmp() is used when yielding from C side, destroying the
stackframe of course. But it is possible to specify a
continuation function to run when the coroutine is required to
resume. [1]

--
Ziyao

[1]: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#4.5