Re: Potential patch for Lua-5.1.2 bug #4

[roberto@... (Roberto Ierusalimschy)]

> The recursive coroutine/stack overflow bug that's listed on the Lua
> website [http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.1.2-4] currently doesn't have
> a patch listed and instead suggests that the right thing to do might
> be moving the nCcalls counter to the global state.  It seems there was
> discussion about there being issues with that in a multi-threaded
> environment.
> 
> I'm currently using the following patch that approaches the problem in
> a slightly different manner, and I'm wondering if there are any
> obvious reasons why this isn't a good way to patch the issue (or if
> there's something that's been missed entirely).
> 
> The patch can be found here: http://pastebin.ca/797346
> 
> The author would appreciate any feedback you can provide.

Would you mind explaining your patch?

-- Roberto