Ditch the renderer system in sdl1.3 and use the 'old fashioned' sdl/opengl context. This gives us more flexibility and less problem in receiving video events (expecially on mobile platform) as well as not having to care to reset the gl context every time sdl interferes.
This is a major sdl1.3 update so it should be tested with care (working great on ios)
/*
** $Id: lmem.h,v 1.31.1.1 2007/12/27 13:02:25 roberto Exp $
** Interface to Memory Manager
** See Copyright Notice in lua.h
*/
#ifndef lmem_h
#define lmem_h
#include <stddef.h>
#include "llimits.h"
#include "lua.h"
#define MEMERRMSG "not enough memory"
#define luaM_reallocv(L,b,on,n,e) \
((cast(size_t, (n)+1) <= MAX_SIZET/(e)) ? /* +1 to avoid warnings */ \
luaM_realloc_(L, (b), (on)*(e), (n)*(e)) : \
luaM_toobig(L))
#define luaM_freemem(L, b, s) luaM_realloc_(L, (b), (s), 0)
#define luaM_free(L, b) luaM_realloc_(L, (b), sizeof(*(b)), 0)
#define luaM_freearray(L, b, n, t) luaM_reallocv(L, (b), n, 0, sizeof(t))
#define luaM_malloc(L,t) luaM_realloc_(L, NULL, 0, (t))
#define luaM_new(L,t) cast(t *, luaM_malloc(L, sizeof(t)))
#define luaM_newvector(L,n,t) \
cast(t *, luaM_reallocv(L, NULL, 0, n, sizeof(t)))
#define luaM_growvector(L,v,nelems,size,t,limit,e) \
if ((nelems)+1 > (size)) \
((v)=cast(t *, luaM_growaux_(L,v,&(size),sizeof(t),limit,e)))
#define luaM_reallocvector(L, v,oldn,n,t) \
((v)=cast(t *, luaM_reallocv(L, v, oldn, n, sizeof(t))))
LUAI_FUNC void *luaM_realloc_ (lua_State *L, void *block, size_t oldsize,
size_t size);
LUAI_FUNC void *luaM_toobig (lua_State *L);
LUAI_FUNC void *luaM_growaux_ (lua_State *L, void *block, int *size,
size_t size_elem, int limit,
const char *errormsg);
#endif