NAME

lua_newstate — creates a new, independent state, function indicator [-0, +0, -]

SYNOPSIS

#include <lua.h>

lua_State *
lua_newstate(lua_Alloc f, void *ud);

DESCRIPTION

lua_newstate() creates a new, independent state. The argument f is the allocator function; Lua does all memory allocation for this state through this function. The second argument, ud, is an opaque pointer that Lua simply passes to the allocator in every call.

RETURN VALUES

Returns NULL if cannot create the state (due to lack of memory).

SEE ALSO

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

HISTORY

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