Re: 'gc' tag method

[Gambit <gambit@...>]

Speaking of crash prevention -
Any plans to introduce an optional cycle limiter, to guard against infinite 
loops and things like that?  Such that I can say: lua_setcycles(50); 
lua_dostring(...); and at 50 cycles in, it will yield back to the function 
that called it with a LUA_YIELD return code, at which point I can call 
lua_continue() or do something else...

Just a thought...
-G

At 05:28 PM 3/21/2002 -0300, you wrote:
> > Can't I do all those things from inside a C function as well? Untested 
> code:
>
> If you want to crash your program from C, you don't need Lua:
>
>   memset((void *)0, 0, INT_MAX);
>
> The point is to avoid crashing your program from Lua. Whatever you
> do in Lua, you cannot crash your program, even if you want (bugs
> notwithstanding). Actually, more than crashing a program, we want to
> make sure that Lua has no "buffer-overflow" bugs and other nasty things
> like that.
>
> -- Roberto