Re: possible bug in lua.c main report lua_tostring malloc

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> In Lua 5.1.4, in lua.h:main, the call to "report" invokes
> lua_tostring, which according to the Lua Reference Manual may raise a
> memory error, presumably in the condition where the error value is a
> number that must be translated into a string and therefore allocate
> memory for the string.  In this context, the call to lua_tostring is
> unprotected.
> 
> I was able to cause "lua -e 'error(5)'" to crash by triggering an
> allocation failure in lmem.c:
> 
> [...]

Just a small detail: By "crash" you mean a panicked exit, right?

-- Roberto