error codes for lua_load?

["Brett Bibby" <research@...>]

Debugging some lua today...

1. According to the manual section 3.10 lua_load return 0, LUA_ERRSYNTAX or LUA_ERRMEM. Due to an error in my chunk loader where I wasn't reading enough bytes, I got error code 1 which is not one of these three. Is this a bug? Does lua_load potetnially return all the lua_pcall codes or is it really a subset?

2. The manual also states that it pushes the chunk as a function onto the stack. Does this mean I always need to do a lua_call to get the chunk processed? In other words, if I load a pre-compiled function chunk do I need to call the chunk to get the function into the vm or is all code loaded into the vm during lua_load?

Thanks,
Brett