Re: Our change list for Lua 5.1work2

["Adam D. Moss" <adam@...>]

Adam D. Moss wrote:
> Mark Hamburg wrote:
>
> > Create a new Lua state. Push some values to it. Call a utility 
> > function that
> > happens to type check the values on the stack. luaL_argerror which is 
> > what
> > luaL_typerror calls which is what luaL_checktype calls is unhappy when 
> > there
> > is no stack frame.
>
> I ran into this recently myself!  I thought it was just my
> fault for using luaL_checktype calls in a function that wasn't
> called by Lua code, and stopped doing that...

n.b. I'm not sure what I was expecting the checktype calls to
achieve when there was no error-handling function to throw the
resulting lua error to.  But I wasn't expecting a crash, I
suppose.

--Adam
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