Re: Updating to 5.1w5: My change list

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 16-Mar-05, at 2:41 PM, Mark Hamburg wrote:

> * Set the status value in a Lua state before calling the panic 
> function.
>
> In ldo.c, we add the following line to luaD_throw just before it calls
> panic.
>
>     L->status = errcode;
>
> This allows panic functions to see the error code and take appropriate
> action such as translating into some other exception system. As with 
> the
> lauxlib.c patch above, a nicer approach would be figuring out how to 
> get the
> effect of lua_cpcall without the convoluted code required to use it.

It would also be nice if you could provide a void* argument for the 
panic function.