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- Subject: ANN: updated yield patch for 4.0
- From: "Thatcher Ulrich" <tu@...>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:46:20 -0500
I fixed a few bugs in the yield patch. Big thanks to Roberto I. and
Arvid Norberg for the bug reports. See
http://www.lua-users.org/wiki/LuaPowerPatches for the current version
of the patch.
Summary of bugs fixed:
> _ERRORMESSAGE = function (x) print(x) end
> a = a+1
attempt to perform arithmetic on global `a' (a nil value)
[previously, this would hang or seg fault]
> function my_func() yield() end
> my_func() if (nil > nil) then end
[previously, this would hang or seg fault]
program.lua:
function foo() a=a+1 end -- a is nil; will cause error
foo()
# lua program.lua
[previously, the stack backtrace from the error would possibly lack
line numbers, and lua would hang or seg fault]
There is still at least one bug surrounding error handling. For example,
if you do:
> dofile("program.lua")
from an interactive session, and program.lua does a yield(), then lua
may seg fault.
Since I only have limited time to work on this, I figured I'd release
the bug fixes so far. More bug reports, and especially patches or
insight, are greatly appreciated.
--
Thatcher Ulrich <tu@tulrich.com>
http://tulrich.com