Re: recursively traverse globals table from C API

[Chris <coderight@...>]

On 1/19/07, Rici Lake <lua@ricilake.net> wrote:
> By the way, be careful with recursively enumerating tables; if there's
> a circular reference, you'll find yourself running off the end of the C
> stack. (And, since _G._G == _G, there is such a circular reference in
> the standard globals table.)

One thing I found interesting (my original code seems to work by the
way, just don't use lua_tostring on the key) is that it never
enumerates the _G._G circle.  It seems to work as expected,
enumerating everything else and then exiting without entering a
infinite loop.

CR