Re: Badly formatted os.date format crashes

[Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 11:59:37 +0100
Rob Kendrick <lua-l@nun.org.uk> wrote:

> If this is a widespread issue (which OS are you on) then it may be
> worth investigating adding a layer of checking of the format string to
> Lua's wrapper for it.

Just a quicky - I can replicate this crash using the 5.1.4 from Lua
Binaries under Windows XP in a VM.  The exception code is 0xd, although
I can't copy and paste the details out of the dialogue box it displays!

Perhaps somebody with a Windows tool chain should debug this. :)

B.