Re: Lua on Atmel's AVR Microcontrollers

[Harald Kipp <harald.kipp@...>]

Luiz,

I hadn't a chance to look into 5.1, but 5.0 uses realloc()
in lmem.c.

In case of simple, MMU-less memory banking, allocation
is no big deal, but accessing items is. As only a few
banks (only one in our case) are visible at a time, banks
have to be switched before accessing the data in the bank.

Regards,

Harald

At 07:34 04.06.2004 -0300, you wrote:
> >If there are somehow central points, where Lua accesses
> >large memory areas, one could implement this.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean, but Lua 5.1 does not rely on malloc. Instead, the
> host is required to provide a memory allocator when creating a Lua state. So,
> you can implement whatever allocation policy when need or want. But Lua will
> still ask for memory as it needs, that is, not in blocks.
> --lhf