calling a lua function from c

[Mike Atamas <aelfgar@...>]

Hello,

I have been struggling with the following problem. I ran a file with lua_dofile. Inside that file there is a function, 

function start()
	print("test");
end

I attempt to call it from C++ with the following code, which I got straight from the reference.
	lua_pushstring( lstate , "start" );
	lua_gettable( lstate , LUA_GLOBALSINDEX );
	lua_call( lstate , 0, 0 );
Whenever I run the program it crashes when it gets to this point. I tried running it through gdb and it told me 
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0805355e in newlstr ()

I am curious what the problem could be.

Thanks in advance

Mike Atamas
hazuzu@aelfgar.com