Essential for beginners: Lua Source File Analysis

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Lua5.1.4 The core source code contains 55 files, which are roughly analyzed as follows:

 
 

  
  
Lapi. c // Lua API, C calls API
  
  
Lapi. h // Auxiliary functions from Lua API
  
  
Lauxlib. c // Auxiliary functions for building Lua libraries
  
  
Lauxlib. h // Auxiliary functions for building Lua libraries
  
  
Lbaselib. c // Basic library
  
  
Lcode. c // Code generator for Lua
  
  
Lcode. h // Code generator for Lua
  
  
Ldblib. c // Interface from Lua to its debug API, debugging
  
  
Ldebug. c // Debug Interface, debugging
  
  
Ldebug. h // Auxiliary functions from Debug Interface module, debugging
  
  
Ldos. c // Stack and Call structure of Lua
  
  
Ldos. h // Stack and Call structure of Lua
  
  
Ldump. c // save precompiled Lua chunks
  
  
Lfunc. c // Auxiliary functions to manipulate prototypes and closures
  
  
Lfunc. h // Auxiliary functions to manipulate prototypes and closures
  
  
Lgc. c // Garbage Collector
  
  
Lgc. h // Garbage Collector
  
  
Linit. c // Initialization of libraries for lua. c
  
  
Liolib. c // Standard I/O (and system) library
  
  
Llex. c // Lexical Analyzer
  
  
Llex. h // Lexical Analyzer
  
  
Llimits. h // Limits, basic types, and some other 'installation-dependent' definitions
  
  
Lmathlib. c // Standard mathematical library
  
  
Lmem. c // Interface to Memory Manager
  
  
Lmem. h // Interface to Memory Manager
  
  
Loadlib. c // Dynamic library loader for Lua
  
  
Lobject. c // Some generic functions over Lua objects
  
  
Lobject. h // Type definitions for Lua objects
  
  
Lopcodes. c // command Definition
  
  
Lopcodes. h // Opcodes for Lua virtual machine
  
  
Loslib. c // Standard Operating System library
  
  
Lparser. c // Lua Parser
  
  
Lparser. h // Lua Parser
  
  
Lstate. c // Global State
  
  
Lstate. h // Global State
  
  
Lstring. c // String table (keeps all strings handled by Lua)
  
  
Lstring. h // String table (keeps all strings handled by Lua)
  
  
Lstrlib. c // Standard library for string operations and pattern-matching
  
  
Ltable. c // Lua tables (hash)
  
  
Ltable. h // Lua tables (hash)
  
  
Ltablib. c // Library for Table Manipulation
  
  
Ltm. c // Tag methods
  
  
Ltm. h // Tag methods
  
  
Lua. c // Lua stand-alone interpreter
  
  
Lua. h // Lua-An Extensible Extension Language, which is the header file used to call the Lua function in C.
  
  
Luac. c // Lua compiler (saves bytecodes to files; also list bytecodes)
  
  
Luaconf. h // Configuration file for Lua
  
  
Lualib. h // Lua standard libraries, definition file of Lua standard library
  
  
Lundump. c // load precompiled Lua chunks
  
  
Lundump. h // load precompiled Lua chunks
  
  
Lvm. c // Lua virtual machine
  
  
Lvm. h // Lua virtual machine
  
  
Lzio. c // a generic input stream interface
  
  
Lzio. h // Buffered streams
  
  
Print. c // print bytecodes
 
 

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