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Hello,

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Tobias Markmann
<tmarkmann@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Mike Pall <mikelu-0901@mike.de> wrote:
>> It looks like you're using LPeg. The default configuration wastes
>> an awful amount of stack space. Matching some patterns with
>> captures can consume up to 40K of stack space.
>>
>> You seem to be nesting calls to LPeg from capture callbacks. This
>> quickly exceeds the default stack space of 60K for Coco coroutines (*).
>>
>> (*) Lua itself has a rather small stack usage, so 60K is usually
>>    more than sufficient.
>>
>> Four solutions:
>> - Either reduce MAXBACK and IMAXCAPTURES in the LPeg sources to
>>  some reasonable number,
>> - or increase the default stack size (pass it to lua_newcthread or
>>  use luaCOCO_cstacksize),
>> - or don't nest calls to LPeg that deeply,
>> - or don't use LPeg from coroutines.
>>
>> --Mike
>
> Thanks for the hint, seem I was using luarocks, which i can't suggest anyone
> but i started with it and that's it. luarocks somehow requires lpeg it
> seems.

LuaRocks does not require lpeg.

> Now I turned it off i don't get that error anymore.

Which one did you turn off, luarocks or lpeg?

-- Hisham