Re: HELP - leak in lua 5.0.3

["Alexandra Barros" <alexandra.barros@...>]

Hi,

Here is the tool. You can implement a function that gives you the information you want and then call the function traverse passing your function as a parameter. As an example, you can look at the functions 'countreferences' and 'findallpaths'. But if these functions already gives you all the information you want... well.. that's better =)
But it hasn't been fully tested yet. Please, report me if you find any bugs.

Thanks,
Alexandra.

On 7/12/06, Roberto Ierusalimschy < roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> Sorry, no insights into this leak specifically, but it
> does bring up a possible suggestion for Lua 5.2 (or 6.0,
> or whatever) - the ability to programatically walk or otherwise
> instrument the not-dead object set in a similar manner to how the
> GC does.

You can do that in Lua itself, using some reflexive facilities. I guess
someone in the list did some tool for this. A student of mine also
wrote such tool (to traverse all live objects of a state). If she is
not in the list, you may contact her directly:

  Alexandra Barros <abarros at inf dot puc-rio dot br>

-- Roberto

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