Re: User setting of GC Threshold

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> Good points. On the relating note I would like to assert again that   
> line 443 in ldo.c saying                                              
>
>         G(L)->GCthreshold += (G(L)->nblocks - old_blocks);
>
> will lead to eventual consumption of ALL available computer memory
> under the right conditions regardless of the platform.

This is one of the nine known bugs of Lua 4.0. I think it is corrected
in 4.0.1. (The line is still there, but not the bug.)

-- Roberto