Re: Why I leave Lua (Was: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work3) now available)

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On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
<lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> there is a limit on the recursion depth of C function calls
>
> Otherwise, a Lua client might crash the host app:
>
>         function tostring(x) print(x) end
>         print(1)
>
> C function calls use the system's call stack, which is not infinite.

I kinda wish calling a C function would push a placeholder of sorts on
the Lua stack, so it could overflow the Lua stack before the host C
stack -- and there were no by-default limit on C calls for recursion