Re: Forcing a GC collection from within the allocator?

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> If it were to come to the point where all of the
> memory in its pool has been allocated to Lua, and it is called to
> allocate a new piece of memory, can it invoke a GC collection to try
> and free up some of its pool, or will causing a GC collection from
> within the allocator cause all sorts of trouble?

Lua 5.2 will have this feature. As it stands, Lua 5.1 does not really
support this. See http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-05/msg00023.html
and http://lua-users.org/wiki/EmergencyGarbageCollector