RE: lua crashes

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

>I have found a few Lua crashes that would have been caught earlier, in a
>completely unrelated call stack, if Lua asserts were enabled. Try that.
>Oddly, the docs don't mention this, or even what you have to define to
>get asserts working. You need to define lua_assert such that it exists
>when including llimits.h and lualib.h.

More precisely, you can turn on API assertions by building Lua with

	  '-Dapi_check(L,o)=assert(o)'

(Actually, it's enough to recompile lapi.c with this on.)

Perhaps we'll make it easier to enable API assertions in the next version.
--lhf