Re: coroutine library can cause panic with low memory

[M Joonas Pihlaja <jpihlaja@...>]

Hey,

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Patrick Donnelly wrote:

> Using the attached script one can cause Lua to panic. The problem is
> the API call lua_checkstack which may throw a memory error.

[snip]

> lua_checkstack should probably not throw memory errors because it
> cannot knowingly throw the error on the currently running thread. The
> thread you are checking stack space for may not actually be running!

Uhm.. sorry if I'm being dense, but isn't growing stack and possibly 
throwing a memory error the very reason for calling lua_checkstack in 
the first place?  What on earth is it supposed to do if it can't throw 
memory errors when it can't grow the stack?

Cheers,

Joonas