** function to close regular files */

** function to (not) close the standard files stdin, stdout, and stderr */

** function to close 'popen' files */

** Traversal function for 'ipairs' */

** 'ipairs' function. Returns 'ipairsaux', given "table", 0. ** (The given "table" may not be a table.) */

** Do a protected call with error handling. After 'lua_rotate', the ** stack will have <f, err, true, f, [args...]>; so, the function passes ** 2 to '

** barrier that moves collector forward, that is, mark the white object ** being pointed by a black object. (If in sweep phase, clear the black ** obj

** barrier that moves collector backward, that is, mark the black object ** pointing to a white object as gray again. */

** barrier for assignments to closed upvalues. Because upvalues are ** shared among closures, it is impossible to know the color of all ** closures po

** generic allocation routine. */

** function to be used with macro "fasttm": optimized for absence of ** tag methods */

** Try to convert a value to a float. The float case is already handled ** by the macro 'tonumber'. */