Re: lua_load modifies the stack

[Peter Cawley <lua@...>]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> wrote:
> I have a table on the stack, then I call lua_load() to load a function.
>  After lua_load() completes without an error, I have a function on top
> of the stack.  But my table, which should now be at position -2, is
> gone.  There is a nil value there.
>
> Hwo can that happen?  Is that some memory corruption in my lua_Reader
> function or are there situations where lua_load() modifies the stack in
> such a way?

What is your reader function doing? It shares the view of the stack
with the caller of lua_load, it doesn't get its own stack frame.