Re: A crash in Lua 5.3.2

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 01/01/2016 15:30, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > > ```
> > > local mt = {}
> > > mt.__newindex = mt
> > > local t = setmetatable({}, mt)
> > > t[1] = 1
> > > ```
> >
> > Right :-(  Thanks for the report. Probably it was introduced with the
> > optimizations on table operations; it does not happen in 5.3.1.
>
> The bug is quite subtle. Follows a fix:
Yep! Nice analysis!

Although it is subtle, it seems easy to trigger in Lua code. Should this 
bug require a "fast-track" emergency bug-fix release of 5.3.3 ?

[...]

> -- Roberto

Cheers!

-- Lorenzo