Re: Weird error: two similar strings are not equal

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>  -- return value #2 mismatch: actual `""', expected `""'
>>>>>  -- return value #4 mismatch: actual `"luatexts"', expected `"luatexts"'
>> ...
>>
>>> I think there's nothing obviously wrong with luatexts, because this
>>> error occurs not every time.
>>
>> Do you mean you run exactly the same program with exactly the same
>> data more than once and the error is not reproducible?
>>
>> ...
>>> I think there's nothing obviously wrong with luatexts, because this
>>> error occurs not every time. And I also believe ensure_returns() (part
>>> of lua-nucleo library) works correctly.
>> ...
>>> Can there be other possibilities?
>>>
>>
>> You seem to be running LuaJIT.  Do you get the same error:
>>
>>  - if you use a different version of LuaJIT?
>>  - under Lua 5.1.5?
>>  - with the same software but on a different computer?
>>
>
> Yes, no, yes.
>
> This, in fact, is a third possible outcome of this LuaJIT bug:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/89951
>
> We're working on reducing the codebase, as Mike asked, without much
> progress so far.
>
> Alexander.
>
> P.S. Valery, you probably should have replied to the existing thread
> to not confuse people.

Ah, apparently it is me who got confused in this case — you mentioned
the original thread in the message. :-)

Alexander.