Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.3 (rc1) now available

[Ulrich Schmidt <u.sch.zw@...>]

At string lengt 1000 he errors out. I increased the string length by 1 
each round. he exactly errors out at string length = 1000.

Ulrich.

Am 15.11.2013 13:30, schrieb Oliver Kroth:
> Hi Ulrich,
>
> when does Lua error out?
> I.e. what s the value of the string b (which seems to be growing) and
> the value of i?
>
>
> Am 15.11.2013 13:09, schrieb Ulrich Schmidt:
> > Hi all.
> > I detected a strange error in lua5.2.2 and tried 5.2.3 with same result:
> >
> > I ran the testsuite "lua-5.2.2-tests". In "literals.lua" lua errors
> > out. I investigated the error and wrote this demonstration:
> >
> > --8x-----------------------------------------------------[bug.lua]---
> > a = "0123456789"
> > b = ""
> > ok = true
> > while ok do
> >   local i = string.len(b)
> >   print(i, i-(""..i))
> >   assert((i-(""..i)) == 0, "string.len() result not int!")
> >   b = b..a
> > end
> > --8x-----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > I am not shure its related to my Pelles-C Compiler. I already disabled
> > all Compiler Optimisation to be save.
> >
> > Where should i start looking at? Or is it a real bug?
> >
> > Greetings.
> > Ulrich.