Re: Script terminated unexpectedly

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Shmuel Zeigerman wrote:
> -- Windows XP SP2, Lua 5.1.4
>
> local N = 1e5
> local patt = "^\n?[^\n]*" .. ("\n[^\n]*"):rep(N-1)
> local subj = (("a"):rep(19).."\n"):rep(40000)
> subj:match(patt) --> terminated here; no error message
> print("OK") --> not printed

It seems, the reason for failure was stack overflow.
I've rebuilt lua.exe, adding a new file lua.def to the link command.
lua.def contained just 1 line:
STACKSIZE	5000000

The rebuilt lua.exe executes the above test case OK. So, this is not a 
Lua bug.

--
Shmuel