Re: does lua_pushstring check stack overflow? (Lua 5.0.2)

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 07:17:08AM -0200, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
>
> > No API function tests anything. In C, you're on your own, as in any
> > other C library.
>
>
> Well, a great many libraries do consistency checks (and a great many
> others don't).  eg. open(NULL, O_RDONLY) will return errno EFAULT, not
> segfault (at least in Linux).  It's just a design choice.

In this case I agree with the Lua choice of speed vs. consistency. All 
those API checks can take a lot of time. Of course a few more asserts 
might help find the source of usage errors like this...

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