what can cause a lua panic?

[Graham Wakefield <lists@...>]

Hi,

I've looked at the manual reference [1], but I don't really  
understand what it means.  I'm having an occasional lua panic, which  
seems to be related to the creation and or collection of coroutines  
created from C (lua_newthread), but I'm not sure.  The error message  
I get from a custom panic handler is 'table index is nil', but no  
traceback or any other info as to when it happens.

So, in an attempt to figure it out, I'd like to know - what kinds of  
things should I be looking at?  Any calls in particular to be wary  
of?  Rawset?

Thanks


[1] lua_atpanic
lua_CFunction lua_atpanic (lua_State *L, lua_CFunction panicf);
Sets a new panic function and returns the old one.

If an error happens outside any protected environment, Lua calls a  
panic function and then calls exit(EXIT_FAILURE), thus exiting the  
host application. Your panic function may avoid this exit by never  
returning (e.g., doing a long jump).

The panic function can access the error message at the top of the stack.