Re: silent hang - can anyone explain?

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On 2012-10-16 12:52 PM, "David Collier" <myshkin@cix.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Ok - so I gather the silent hang isn't "quite expected" for some subtle
> reason I haven't twigged.
>
> > I'll make a guess that you're using Lua inside an application that
> > is
> > using [lua_]pcall() without appropriate error handling in place to
> > report the error to you.
>
> not knowingly - and I get other error messages just fine
>
> > Another possibility is that the error
> > happened inside a coroutine, you need to check the return value from
> > coroutine.resume() in this case.
>
> Well I'm not intentionally invoking coroutines. Simple single-thread bit
> of equipment test s/w running on windoze.
>
> Thanks - will cut bits out of my prog till it says something :-)
>
> David
> >
> > Regards,
> > Matthew
> >
>

By some coincidence, is payLoad:subs() an actual existing function that loops for a long time? (Maybe payLoad is not the type you expect?) Wouldn't be the first time I've seen such an unlikely-seeming scenario on this list.