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I've been studying the Lua 5.1 VM opcodes for some time now, out of boredom.

And I want to try coding something!

So is there any existing way to assemble Lua Assembly into Bytecode ?

Seki
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I never used it, but I've found this link in my "Things to watch when I have more time" list (oddly I never get to the part of consuming this list...)

http://chunkbake.luaforge.net/

It claims to assemble Lua 5.0 VM Code into bytecodes, not 5.1, and unfortunately I don't know how much has changed from 5.0 to 5.1.

Alexandre Araujo Moreira
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I never used it either, but ChunkSpy is a Lua 5.1 disassembler, and on that site there is also a file explaining both the 5.0 and 5.1 opcodeset. So maybe, starting on that code, you start writing an assembler yourself?

jpjacobs
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