Re: Badly formatted os.date format crashes

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 09/09/2008 12:52, David Welch wrote:
> Just a heads up about a possible bug.  I have a lua script with:
>  os.date("%.d", 123)
>
> which crashes when run.  The lua version is Lua 5.1.4 which I downloaded 
> from lua binaries.

WinXP Pro SP2, Lua 5.1.3 from LuaBinaries

> lua5.1 -e "print(os.date('%.d', 123))"

=> OS crash dialog (report to Microsoft, blabla)

AppName: lua5.1.exe	 AppVer: 0.0.0.0	 ModName: msvcr80.dll
ModVer: 8.0.50727.762	 Offset: 00018b85

Exception Information
Code: 0xc000000d

Corresponds to "Non valid descriptor"

In case it helps.

Now, I won't call that a Lua error, as Roberto says, "garbage in, garbage out".
But it is annoying, for sure.

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