Re: Function to detect Lua state and heap corruption

[Andrew Gierth <andrew@...>]

>>>>> "Abhijit" == Abhijit Nandy <abhijit.nandy@gmail.com> writes:

 Abhijit> I have a medium sized application, and sometimes the Lua state
 Abhijit> gets corrupted probably due to forgetting to pop the correct
 Abhijit> values or multiple threads accessing the state. While I have
 Abhijit> taken measures to prevent this, we still sometimes get a heap
 Abhijit> corruption that leads to a crash later, making the problematic
 Abhijit> area difficult to pin point.

 Abhijit> If there is a function that can be run to verify if everything
 Abhijit> is fine after every Lua code execution request, that can help
 Abhijit> to narrow down the bad code faster.

Did you already try enabling the API checks? That doesn't check the
whole state, but it does check the sanity of the arguments to every API
call.

-- 
Andrew.