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Control your Raspberry Pi with Lua

Learn how to use the Lua programming language to program Internet of Things (IoT) devices and interact with General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) pins on a Raspberry Pi.

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How the GDB debugger and other tools use call frame information to determine the active function calls

Get the active function call from your debugger.

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Compiler optimization and its effect on debugger line information

Learn how to decipher the output of debugging line information, and what tools you can use to look deeper.

Learn Lua with our new downloadable guide

Whether you want to want to learn Lua to get into the gaming and media industry, or you're just interested in an easy scripting language with no upper limit, Lua is an…

Mapping the program counter back to the function name in your code

This article covers how the mapping between source code and the executable binary is implemented with DWARF.

Lua loops: how to use while and repeat until

Learn how and when to use while and repeat until loops in Lua.

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