Re: Lua C++ exception catching too broad.

[Mark Hamburg <mhamburg@...>]

If you do that, I think it will probably leave the Lua state messed up.

Mark

on 7/29/06 11:24 AM, Joe Smith at unknown_kev_cat@hotmail.com wrote:

> When compiling lua as C++ the exception catching is too broad.
> in luaconf.h "catch(...)" is used as part of the definition of LUAI_TRY.
> 
> However, that could catch a programs own internal exceptions, which may have
> valid reasons to jump past lua in the unwind path.
> Instead please use "catch(lua_longjmp*)"  which will only catch the internal
> lua errors. 
> 
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