On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Kristopher Micinski
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