Re: Strange behaviour of lua_Alloc

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Peter Cawley <lua@corsix.org> wrote:

To quote the 5.2 manual:

When ptr is NULL, osize encodes the kind of object that Lua is allocating.

On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just put together a simple test allocator in Lua:
> http://pastie.org/8899878
>
> The very first allocation Lua makes is a realloc, resizing a block from 8
> bytes to 704.
>
> I don't understand what this means... how can be be realloc()ing a block it
> never allocated?
>
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I really need to pay more attention. :)

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