Re: 5.1w1 aborts

["Adam D. Moss" <adam@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > This time I enabled lua_abort() [...]
>
> You meant lua_assert, right?

Oh... yes.

> > and it's only after doing this a few times that I get the abort (from,
> > I imagine, checkliveness()):
>
> Doesn't the abort give a more informative error message?

No, I only defined it to abort if false, as I recall, without
saying what the assert failed on (I thought the stack trace would
be illuminating enough, forgetting that Lua asserts from macros
a lot).

> > #2  0x4017cbf8 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
> > #3  0x080eedd1 in luaV_execute (L=0x81cbb48, nexeccalls=1) at lvm.c:435
>
> This second abort site is at a getupval operation. Asko Kauppi's bug
> also seems to be related to upvalues...

I'll trust your judgement on that. :)

--Adam