Can anyone tell me where to find Lua’s bytecode specification? I’ve been searching for 15 minutes, and I can’t find anything.
Can anyone tell me where to find Lua’s bytecode specification? I’ve been searching for
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Can anyone tell me where to find Lua’s bytecode specification? I’ve been searching for 15 minutes, and I can’t find anything.
Maybe A No-Frills Introduction to Lua 5.1 VM Instructions contains what you’re looking for?
There is also a table of the Lua 5.0 instruction set (Figure 5) in:
You can find the full text with a search on Google Scholar and I believe it’s on lua.org as well. This reference is used by the Lua page on Wikipedia, which is always a good place to look for such things. 🙂