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0 pointsfanf25y ago0 comments

Lua exposes much less of its internals than Python. For example the comment you replied to mentioned stack frames which are not exposed in Lua.

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Those are exposed via the built-in debug library, including in luajit.

fanf2OP5y ago

Oh whoops yes :-)

Note that you can only look up variables by their bytecode register number, not by name.

IIRC that uses the Lua C API which LuaJIT supports by fully restoring the interpreter state?

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0 pointsfanf25y ago0 comments

Lua exposes much less of its internals than Python. For example the comment you replied to mentioned stack frames which are not exposed in Lua.

Those are exposed via the built-in debug library, including in luajit.

fanf2OP5y ago

Oh whoops yes :-)

Note that you can only look up variables by their bytecode register number, not by name.

IIRC that uses the Lua C API which LuaJIT supports by fully restoring the interpreter state?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse