On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Kristopher Micinski <krismicin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh, this is nice, we have our undergrads implement a compiler to Lua > bytecode as part of their term projects, and currently use a homebrew > OCaml package. This seems to be pretty complete, however, and it > would be interesting for me to reimplement some stuff with this..
Please do! It would be great to have some real world testing. > > Unfortunately the Lua bytecode isn't really documented or intended to > be generated, meaning that you essentially have to reverse engineer > it. (Maybe not "unfortunately;" it's not meant to be used like that, > but unfortunately for people looking to find projects to assign > people...) I used the excellent "A No-Frills Introduction to Lua 5.1 VM Instructions" (http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=14039839166840129336). Highly recommended to get a quick overview of the entire bytecode format. -- Anupam _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
