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280 Commits

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Roberto Ierusalimschy
055104f5b6 keep memory-error message in the global state, so that its use
does not depend on Lua internalizing strings to avoid a string
creation on memory errors
2010-04-08 14:16:46 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
6abde1b05a no need to keep "_ENV" name in global state (can be kept in lex state) 2010-04-05 13:35:37 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
a8d3aa14fd global table now is only kept in the registry 2010-03-29 14:43:14 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
064e406f67 no more fenvs! 2010-03-26 17:58:11 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
5c87f61e6b major collections in generational mode 2010-03-25 16:37:23 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
4433dbb5f5 userdata with finalizers are kept in a separated list ('udgc'), instead
of at the end of 'rootgc' (which was renamed to 'allgc', as it is not
"root" in the usual meaning for collectors)
2010-03-24 10:07:01 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
74123e9686 draft version of a generational mode for garbage collection. (Not well
tested; no major collections; ...)
2010-03-22 15:28:03 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
22ef84b6c8 '_ENV' name permanently stored in global state for easier access 2010-03-13 12:55:42 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
c8ff7de7f0 field 'oldtop' renamed to 'extra', as it can be used for other
purposes
2010-02-09 09:55:37 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
f84b575cfa no more pseudoindex LUA_GLOBALSINDEX; global table now accessible
through registry
2009-12-22 13:32:50 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
3a9ae612a4 macro 'ngcotouv' is the same as 'gco2uv', so it was removed 2009-12-11 11:39:34 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
3c4d970a7b comment typos 2009-11-26 09:39:20 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
b0f2b288a6 new scheme for debug info about tail calls: no more 'fake' stack entries,
but stack entry knows whether it was tail called
2009-11-25 13:27:51 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
ce444bff33 (huge) simplification of GC management 2009-11-18 11:13:47 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
5bc91c6405 no more one environment per thread: all threads share a single global
environment
2009-10-23 17:12:19 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
f76f4cb79d new way to control stack overflow, controling only total size of the stack 2009-07-15 14:26:14 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
1d6ebce296 new function 'lua_version' (so that 'checkversion' can be implemented
in the auxiliary library)
2009-06-18 15:59:18 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
9423e22aa3 no more L->base + ci->base only for Lua functions (C functions may use
'func')
2009-06-01 16:09:26 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
d3037d97ec several small improvements based on 'ci' being fixed now (including
erasing savedpc from lua_State)
2009-04-17 19:00:01 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
4f88418170 'CallInfo' stack implemented as double-linked list instead of an array 2009-04-17 11:28:06 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
70a63fa5ad first implementation of yieldable 'pcall' 2009-04-08 15:04:33 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
6d0ae11c57 'context' added to suspendable calls 2009-03-23 11:26:12 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
ba484b9eb1 yielding across lua_call (first version) 2009-03-10 14:14:37 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
1817dfc301 initial separation, in CallInfo, of what is relevant only to Lua
functions or only to C functions
2009-03-04 10:32:29 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
d2ebdc045b new macro 'lua_checkversion' to check whether core and application are
compatible
2009-02-18 14:20:56 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
f94cd2201c better control of call status through CallInfo 2008-08-26 10:27:42 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
394646891c new field 'status' in CallInfo structure 2008-08-13 14:01:33 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
0c8f5fc2fd simplification in the handling of finalizers: no more 'tmudata' list +
no more GCSsweeptmu collector's state
2008-06-26 16:42:45 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
8fd28611d5 outdated comment 2008-06-23 13:51:08 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
e2b366c760 userdata with finalizers are kept in a separated list 2008-02-19 15:55:09 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
a73930228a more options for 'kinds' of Garbage Collection 2008-02-11 13:45:30 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
5e8dd55574 first implementation of ephemerons 2007-10-31 13:41:19 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
0e961ad47a some changes toward ephemerons 2007-10-29 14:51:20 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
593bfc9668 should not manipulate NULL pointers (even without accessing them) 2007-02-07 15:48:52 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
d1ef7e0ec6 avoid local "pc" in interpreter loop (tricky optimization with no real gain) 2006-09-19 10:57:50 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
93bf618504 BUG: there is only one C stack, so nCcalls must be global 2006-08-15 16:59:20 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
3ca9af51a4 emergency garbage collector (core forces a GC when allocation fails) 2006-07-11 12:53:29 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
ea2cc2bc47 small improvements for allignments 2006-02-06 16:27:59 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
e84b11a494 avoid names starting with '_' 2005-07-09 10:22:34 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
eca9fa02d2 small improvement 2005-06-03 17:16:16 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
6cf85dcc90 metatables for all types 2005-05-05 12:34:03 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
8718fda9b2 added LUAI_FUNC to functions not in the API 2005-04-25 16:24:10 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
7b6c3b463e small optimizations 2005-04-05 10:41:29 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
390256edf7 better name for GC pause 2005-03-22 13:04:29 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
fb0f95a2b7 call limit may be larger than shorts 2005-03-18 15:55:09 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
d55bb795fa details 2005-02-23 14:30:22 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
7d45a5f48f C functions and userdata also have environments 2005-02-18 10:40:02 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
678d2fb2ac all collected userdata must go to the end of the list of finalizers 2005-02-11 18:03:35 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
334ba8132b cleaner way to remark open upvalues 2005-01-18 15:18:09 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
5be517602e no more generational collector (and no more `noinc' mode) 2005-01-14 12:19:42 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
e2498e079e change in hash algorithm so that it does not need empty slot
(tables can be 100% full)
2005-01-05 16:20:51 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
c6254dceff a different option for the GC 2004-12-13 10:15:11 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
39a8082f50 more options for controling the GC 2004-12-06 15:53:42 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
2419f2bf02 cleaner API for coroutines 2004-09-15 17:39:42 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
0b06241483 better control for GC cycles 2004-08-30 10:44:44 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
32d4f304db first implementation of generational GC 2004-08-24 17:12:06 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
e8d4fe7236 new macro lua_threadyield' + lock stuff in luaconf.h' + details 2004-06-02 16:07:55 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
616438fe9a new way to use vararg' parameters (with ...') 2004-05-31 15:51:50 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
0bda88e6cd small steps towards yields in iterators and tag methods 2004-05-14 16:25:09 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
26a9b249db details 2004-03-24 12:46:49 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
47fc57a252 TObject' renamed to TValue' + other name changes and better assertions
for incremental garbage collection
2003-12-10 10:13:36 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
fe595a45c2 `grayagain' list 2003-12-04 16:52:23 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
9db1942bac sweep of strings also incremental 2003-12-04 15:22:42 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
c6eac44a94 two different white flags (to distinguish dead elements from new ones) 2003-12-03 18:03:07 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
8878554b85 single list for all collectible objects, with udata separated at the
end of the list
2003-12-03 10:30:41 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
af850484a9 default metatable can be NULL 2003-12-01 16:22:56 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
1d10acb355 incremental GC phases 2003-12-01 14:33:30 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
366e4af3c9 towards incremental GC 2003-11-18 12:55:11 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
b97fb932ec Lua kernel does not use malloc/free functions. 2003-10-02 17:31:17 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
fa26d294ae new way to control `pc' of running functions 2003-07-16 17:49:02 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
572a69df78 Lua does not need all those different types... 2003-04-28 16:26:16 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
92f6e0c1bf no-nonsense debug information about tail calls 2003-02-27 08:52:30 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
5f698f8b6f simpler interface to hooks + use of `int' to count hooks 2002-11-25 15:47:13 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
dbc5451bea comments 2002-11-22 16:01:46 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
2d2d45976c separated control over C recursion level 2002-11-22 15:16:52 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
be00cd2a6b easier way to keep `base' correct 2002-11-21 13:46:44 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
ddc144e4d2 keep L->ci->base in L->base for faster access 2002-11-21 13:16:04 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
c4ae00a3d1 details 2002-11-18 13:23:43 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
43013b39cc new representation for hooks (to allow asynchronous calls to sethook) 2002-11-18 09:01:55 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
2f91f95d94 better control over GCObjects 2002-11-13 09:32:26 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
118347d8c3 new API for coroutines 2002-11-06 17:08:00 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
96e15b8501 threads now are real Lua objects, subject to garbage collection 2002-10-25 17:05:28 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
81bc5711a8 only one instance of registry and default metatable per global state 2002-10-22 14:58:14 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
b3d0682fb9 use of different buffers for scanner and concatenation 2002-10-08 15:46:08 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
565e6d74e1 state's buffer is used only for chars 2002-09-19 10:03:53 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
fdafd4f4a8 new structure for collectable objects, sharing a common header 2002-08-30 16:09:21 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
8e4ac679ff use a linear count for count hook 2002-08-12 14:23:12 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
5016f43aa4 (much) cleaner way to control function states 2002-08-07 16:22:39 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
2e38c6ae5a luadebug.h' content now is included in lua.h' 2002-08-06 15:01:50 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
a2fa48a570 new (old?) error handling scheme 2002-08-06 12:32:22 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
4e23699aa6 new implementation for error handling 2002-08-05 14:36:24 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
e5146fb01f CallInfo has different fields for C functions and Lua functions 2002-07-16 11:26:56 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
44752fc9ce hook count is quadratic 2002-07-08 17:22:08 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
39b2d58c39 new interface for debug hooks 2002-07-08 15:21:33 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
b30ec2532c details 2002-07-02 13:43:28 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
01f1ac36b1 `global' tables (registry, etc.) stored in proper place, not in the stack 2002-05-08 14:34:23 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
383e8b9e77 use of a common `dummynode' for all empty tables 2002-04-23 12:04:39 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
c11d374c59 `panic' function configurable via API 2002-04-16 14:08:28 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
6c7334a9ac line trace uses savedpc' to save last pc' seen 2002-04-10 09:11:07 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
81215cd59f simpler way to control stack overflow 2002-03-26 17:46:10 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
801aaf37b1 simpler implementation for line information 2002-03-25 14:47:14 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
71c716e5a8 avoid C identifiers beginning with '_' 2002-03-11 09:45:00 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
6658b9588f details 2002-03-07 15:11:51 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
b0a5e156b8 no more maximum stack size 2002-02-14 19:47:29 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
e01f5e6809 better order of record fields for 64-bit machines 2002-02-08 20:42:41 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
6bb5cb1cbd comments 2002-02-05 20:37:26 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
d6fd33e76f eventtable' renamed to metatable' 2002-01-30 15:26:44 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
50e2952593 first version of dynamic stack 2002-01-25 20:14:54 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
448517e47e no more linehook field in CallInfo 2002-01-18 15:39:06 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
d56d4cf776 distinct functions to create/destroy states and threads 2002-01-11 18:26:52 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
f083812c02 first implementation of coroutines 2002-01-09 20:02:47 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
facfec0687 small optimizations 2002-01-03 15:42:57 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
e04f7ed450 first version of Lua "stackless" 2001-12-18 18:52:30 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
ed9be5e1f0 reentrant implementation of garbage collection 2001-12-11 14:52:57 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
592a309177 tag system replaced by event tables 2001-12-05 18:15:18 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
413fc7334b new implementation for lua upvalues (sugested by E.T.): simpler and solves
a bug for multi-stacks
2001-11-29 18:22:22 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
617008f552 field G renamed to _G to avoid problemas with bugged macro-systems
(there is a macro named G too)
2001-11-06 19:40:51 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
af59848219 tables of globals accessible through pseudo-index in C API 2001-10-31 17:58:11 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
0b551a24f8 Hash' -> Table' 2001-10-25 17:12:21 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
1e81da51ba new API for registry and C upvalues + new implementation for references 2001-10-17 19:12:57 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
b840a7518d details 2001-10-02 13:43:29 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
abdbe883a8 first implementation of unrestricted static scoping 2001-09-07 14:39:10 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
ae19b2f51e more relaxed rules for syncronized access 2001-06-15 16:16:41 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
d5b83ead90 new implementation for userdatas, without `keys' 2001-06-06 15:00:19 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
beee01b170 re-implementation of refs through weak tables 2001-04-17 14:35:54 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
6048c4f74d better way to link callinfo's and stack 2001-03-07 15:09:25 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
7b84f9e65c lower-case for macros with arguments 2001-03-02 14:27:50 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
dfd7ce74cf buffer should be void *, as char now is not that neutral... 2001-02-23 17:32:16 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
39b7978329 first (big) step to support wide chars 2001-02-23 14:17:25 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
099442c41f better separation between basic types 2001-02-20 15:15:33 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
426d3e43bd lock/unlock may use L + better structure for internal debug stuff 2001-02-02 13:13:05 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
e506b864cd no need for tags in boxed values :-( 2001-02-01 15:40:48 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
bce6572579 new macros + new names to facilitate compilation of threaded version 2001-01-26 09:45:51 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
a53d9b66ca first implementation for type names 2001-01-25 14:45:36 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
71ae4801d6 macros LUA_ENTRY/LUA_EXIT to control exclusive access to Lua core 2001-01-24 13:45:33 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
6fda6a5302 support for multiple stacks sharing the same global environment 2001-01-22 16:01:38 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
4ac58853dc thead-specific state separated from "global" state 2001-01-19 11:20:30 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
8c49e19865 explicit control of size for growing vectors 2000-12-26 16:46:09 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
96253ed8ce better support for 64-bit machines (avoid excessive use of longs) 2000-11-24 15:39:56 -02:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
046a3d6173 tag methods are always functions, so don't need to store a whole object 2000-10-05 10:00:17 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
dad808a73a new way to count `nblocks' for GC (try to count bytes). 2000-09-29 09:42:13 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
13635f7de7 new version of protected execution 2000-09-25 13:22:42 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
787a78f83e new scheme for buffers 2000-09-11 14:38:42 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
9fdf73bc9a first version for new API 2000-08-28 14:57:04 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
0802a9df9e no more options for debug information: it is always on 2000-08-08 17:42:07 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
397905ef86 (much) better handling of memory alloction errors 2000-08-07 15:39:16 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
ef62b340e0 code cleaner for 16 bits. 2000-05-24 10:54:49 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
330e51bed3 string hash uses one single hash table 2000-05-10 13:33:20 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
11a7022067 global variables are stored in a Lua table 2000-05-08 16:32:53 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
556a89e537 new names for debug types 2000-03-30 14:19:48 -03:00