Re: Potential patch for Lua-5.1.2 bug #4

["Jim Whitehead II" <jnwhiteh@...>]

On 11/25/07, Jim Whitehead II <jnwhiteh@gmail.com> wrote:
> The recursive coroutine/stack overflow bug that's listed on the Lua
> website [http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.1.2-4] currently doesn't have
> a patch listed and instead suggests that the right thing to do might
> be moving the nCcalls counter to the global state.  It seems there was
> discussion about there being issues with that in a multi-threaded
> environment.
>
> I'm currently using the following patch that approaches the problem in
> a slightly different manner, and I'm wondering if there are any
> obvious reasons why this isn't a good way to patch the issue (or if
> there's something that's been missed entirely).
>
> The patch can be found here: http://pastebin.ca/797346

The patch linked won't apply correctly, but this one should:
http://pastebin.ca/797358

 - Jim