Re: illegal luaL_buffer usage in loadlib.c

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> In findloader (https://www.lua.org/source/5.3/loadlib.c.html#findloader)
> luaL_buffinit is called before pushing the searchers table onto the
> stack.
> This breaks the "balanced stack" that luaL_buffinit is documented to expect.
> Also, later code then assumes that the searchers table is at index 3.
> 
> Now, this doesn't actually manifest in a bug in PUC Rio lua 5.3, as
> the implementation of luaL_buffinit doesn't touch the stack.
> However if someone were to extract parts of loadlib.c to use with a
> different auxlib implementation then there might be issues.
> 
> The fix is to simply move the luaL_buffinit call below the lua_getfield call.

Thanks for the correction.

-- Roberto