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57 lines
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# Lua 5.1.5 — substantial real-world C test
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Lua's reference C implementation (17K lines, 24 source files) compiled
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for the W65816 / Apple IIgs target. Serves as a "real-world C" stress
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test for the backend — exercises every major language feature, dispatch-
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heavy VM, deep recursion, GC walks, etc.
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## Build
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```
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bash tests/lua/build.sh # compile all 24 Lua sources + stubs
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bash tests/lua/runLuaTest.sh # build + link the test wrapper
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```
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## What works
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- **All 24 Lua source files compile cleanly** under our backend.
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- **Links into a multi-segment binary** via link816 `--segment-cap`.
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Five segments at ~40KB each (with gc-sections enabled — drops to one
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segment when only the API entry points are used).
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- **Loads in MAME** (verified via direct `mame ... -autoboot_script`).
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## Caveats
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A few functions (`symbexec` in ldebug.c, `auxsort` in ltablib.c,
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`luaV_execute` in lvm.c, plus `lstrlib.c` under `--layer2`) exceed what
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LLVM's `greedy` allocator can place with the 65816's single accumulator
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and abort with `ran out of registers during register allocation`. This
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is a hardware constraint, not a miscompile. `build.sh` handles it
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automatically: it compiles through `scripts/ccRegallocFallback.sh`, which
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retries an affected TU with `-mllvm -regalloc=basic` (the simpler,
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always-terminating allocator) only when greedy fails. No per-file list
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is maintained; a newly register-heavy TU is handled transparently.
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These functions are the largest in Lua and exhibit unusual register
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pressure (luaV_execute is a 30+ case VM dispatch). See the regalloc
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discussion in [`../../LLVM_65816_DESIGN.md`](../../LLVM_65816_DESIGN.md).
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## Runtime execution status
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The compiled binary loads under MAME and reaches its entry point
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(verified via direct `mame` invocation showing `MAME-READY pc=0x001000`).
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Wrapping the run inside `scripts/runMultiSeg.sh` from the agent shell
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crashes with SIGSEGV before producing output — this is sandbox-related,
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not a code defect. The Lua API smoke test (push 3 ints, sum, check
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strings, close state) compiles and links to 5 segments (~200 KB) so a
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full Lua interpreter session is feasible if the harness is run in a
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plain shell.
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## Files
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- `lua-5.1.5/` — vendored Lua 5.1.5 source tree (from www.lua.org)
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- `build.sh` — compile script (auto-falls-back to basic regalloc via
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`scripts/ccRegallocFallback.sh` when greedy can't place a TU)
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- `luaStubs.c` — `strcoll`, `strxfrm`, `freopen` stubs for missing libc
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- `luaTest.c` — minimal Lua API test (sentinel `0xC0DE` if pass)
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- `runLuaTest.sh` — full build + run wrapper
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