NAME

lua_State — opaque structure that keeps the whole state of a Lua interpreter

SYNOPSIS

#include <lua.h>

typedef struct lua_State lua_State;

DESCRIPTION

lua_State opaque structure that keeps the whole state of a Lua interpreter. The Lua library is fully reentrant: it has no global variables. All information about a state is kept in this structure. A pointer to this state must be passed as the first argument to every function in the library, except to lua_newstate(3), which creates a Lua state from scratch.

SEE ALSO

lua_newstate(3)

Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, and Waldemar Celes, Lua 5.1 Reference Manual.

HISTORY

The lua_State manual page is based on Lua Reference Manual 5.1 and was created by Sergey Bronnikov.