Re: A Problem about lua-5.2.0's code

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

> 642|  setptvalue2s(L, L->top, tf);
> 643|  incr_top(L);
> 644|  cl = luaF_newLclosure(L, tf);
> 645|  setclLvalue(L, L->top - 1, cl);

> It seems that the code in line 642 is useless. Because the stack entry will be cover by the code in line 645.
> Is it really useless or it has other effect?

It serves to anchor tf to avoid it being collected if a collection is
triggered inside luaF_newLclosure. (Functions that allocate memory can
trigger collections.)