NAME

lua_dump — dumps a function as a binary chunk, function indicator [-0, +0, m]

SYNOPSIS

#include <lua.h>

int
lua_dump(lua_State *L, lua_Writer writer, void *data);

DESCRIPTION

lua_dump() dumps a function as a binary chunk. Receives a Lua function on the top of the stack and produces a binary chunk that, if loaded again, results in a function equivalent to the one dumped. As it produces parts of the chunk, lua_dump() calls function writer (see lua_Writer(3)) with the given data to write them.

This function does not pop the Lua function from the stack.

RETURN VALUES

The value returned is the error code returned by the last call to the writer; 0 means no errors.

SEE ALSO

lua_Writer(3)

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

HISTORY

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