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Better LuaJIT FFI support [message #1041188] Sun, 14 April 2013 19:33 Go to next message
Julien Desgats is currently offline Julien DesgatsFriend
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Hi,

Since some time, I am working at a refactoring and add new features on the LDT's debugger. To start, I've refactored the introspection part, to allow to plug custom inspectors for userdata. I will explain this part in detail in a future thread.

A first application of this work is a plugin to inspect LuaJIT FFI data (called "cdata"). Is allows you to browse FFI structure, change any value, ...

To test this, you have to:

  1. Build LuaSocket from unstable (stable versions done not have LuaJIT support, yet). I may provide a Windows binary build if there is a demand for it.
  2. Replace your existing debugger.lua file by this one: http://gist.github.com/jdesgats/5383865/raw/56591f94f48a253a821a5610525b402206c3df96/debugger.lua
  3. Require the debugger.plugins.ffi after starting debugger, so the staring code should look like


require"debugger"("localhost", 10000)
require"debugger.plugins.ffi"


This plugin is just a wrapper around Peter Crawley's Reflect[1] module. Many thanks to him for this wonderful library Smile

This work can also be found on my LDT fork on github[2].

This stuff is currently in alpha stage (tested only under Linux) and may contain bugs, please send your feedback if you encounter any problem. Have fun Smile

[1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.luajit/87
[2] http://github.com/jdesgats/org.eclipse.koneki.ldt/tree/newintrospection/libraries/luadbgpclient

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Re: Better LuaJIT FFI support [message #1059148 is a reply to message #1041188] Fri, 17 May 2013 01:35 Go to previous message
luo dd is currently offline luo ddFriend
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thanks alot Twisted Evil
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