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On 2012-12-05 4:31 PM, "Patrick Donnelly" <batrick@batbytes.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> >The manual mentions at some point that
> > Lua automatically checks the available stack space, but when?
>
> "Whenever Lua calls C, it ensures that the stack has at least
> LUA_MINSTACK extra slots."
>
> "When you call a Lua function without a fixed number of results (see
> lua_call), Lua ensures that the stack has enough size for all results,
> but it does not ensure any extra space."
>
> --
> - Patrick Donnelly
>

Ah, I thought there were other times, but perhaps I'm mistaken.