> Does anyone here know of a similar document I could refer to for Lua > 5.2? I would love to have a format specification I could use to update > my code reading the blocks of data. The format is essentially the same except for the VM instructions. See the source at http://www.lua.org/source/5.2/ldump.c.html http://www.lua.org/source/5.2/lundump.c.html or my bytecode inspector library, lbci: http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/#lbci