Re: luac and loadstring hang

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> 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)

changing the last line to print(loadstring(str)) gives me this:

nil	binary string: bad constant in precompiled chunk

but in an older machine it did hang. (Both are Linux machines.)