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On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 17:28:42 -0500
Jason White <whitewaterssoftwareinfo AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

> I have to say I don't completely understand your question. The stack
> is nothing more than an exchange medium between the Lua script and the
> C program. If a script defines a variable, the C program requests it
> and it gets pushed onto the top of the stack. When the C program wants
> to read its value, it pops it off the stack.

I know. However, I think Lua's stack is designed to push/pop argument and
return values of functions. What we want to do, is put the whole layout on
the stack. Arguments and return values are few byte of data. The whole
layout can be 10 megabytes.

Levente