Re: Random crashed with threaded application

[David Demelier <demelier.david@...>]

2013/6/21 steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Javier Guerra Giraldez
> <javier@guerrag.com> wrote:
>>
>> in conclusion: all Lua API calls must be protected by a mutex tied to
>> the Lua State.  (that's what the global locks mentioned by Luiz do
>> when compiled with the appropriate preprocessor flags)
>
>
> How about 'daughter threads' launched in different OS threads? So there may
> be some mutexed communication between these in the same 'global' Lua state?
>
> I do something like this in winapi, but it's finicky and I'm wondering under
> what conditions it can be guaranteed to be stable.
>
> steve d.
>
>

In fact, thanks to LUA_USE_APICHECK, I realized that I did some
lua_getglobal() but never lua_pop() so I blown out the stack and the
segfaults came from there.

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Demelier David