Re: Missing line number information in errors

["Wim Couwenberg" <w.couwenberg@...>]

Tom Spilman wrote:
>   When lua returned the error is simply got the message
>
>   "attempt to call a string value"

This error is not the syntax error from your script...

>   luaL_loadbuffer( state, buffer, size, filename );
>   lua_pcall( state, 0, LUA_MULTRET, 0 );

What happens is that the luaL_loadbuffer call fails and leaves an error
message on the stack.  Then lua_pcall tries to call a string value... There
you go!  So you should check the result code of the luaL_loadbuffer call and
report the error string if it failed.  See section 3.10 "Loading Lua chunks"
of the manual.  (luaL_loadbuffer is a simple lua_load wrapper.)

Bye,
Wim