Re: ANN: coxpcall 1.6 (was RE: Xavate crash and coxpcall missing 'arg' variable)

[Javier Guerra <javier@...>]

On 16 may 2005, at 5:50 PM, Andre Carregal wrote:

> Romulo,
>
> > I don't know if you looked at the commented source I
> > sent in the first post, but the problem is that coxpcall is 
> > attempting to
> read/write to
> > 'arg', and there is no 'arg' in coxpcall. Also, I don't know where to
> > take it because, in theory, xpcall don't have extra arguments; just 
> > two.
>
> You are right! What happened was that Xavante have been mostly used 
> with the
> standalone Lua interpreter, which creates the global "arg", so the bug 
> has
> passed unoticed until now.

right, i got all mixed; and stuck to my usual problem when debugging: 
because of coxpcall(), it's so hard to get good error messages!

after i reread coxpcall() source, i realized that arg[] is first set 
after the first use.

--
Javier