Re: Interesting stack overflow in Lua 5.3

[Parke <parke.nexus@...>]

>>> The following function, when invoked, causes a C stack overflow
>>> in Lua 5.3.
>>>
>>> local subsystem_mt = {__index =
>>>     function(spec,auction)
>>>        for key,bid in ipairs(spec) do
>>>           print("Checking '"..auction.."' against '"..key.."'")
>>>        end
>>>     end}

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:
> But I don't see how invoking it would cause something, either.

Eventually, ipairs will get to the end of the spec.  At which point,
ipairs will cause a recursive call to __index, which calls ipairs
again, etc.

-Parke