luac and loadstring hang

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

The string below, when fed to loadstring, causes the interpreter to 
hang. (Same behavior if this string is saved to file and then fed to 
luac). Lua 5.1.4, Windows XP SP2.

-- test begin --
local str =
  "\27\76\117\97\81\0\1\4\4\4\8\0\7\0\0\0\64\49\46\108\117\97" ..
  "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\2\3\0\0\0\1\0\0\14\0\0\0\30\0\128" ..
  "\0\1\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\23\64\0\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\2\0" ..
  "\0\0\2\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\102\0\1\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"

loadstring(str)

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Shmuel