Re: [ANN] Lua 5.4.0 (rc4) now available

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 01/06/2020 21:22, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> Lua 5.4.0 (rc4) is now available for testing at
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.4.0-rc4.tar.gz
>
> The checksums are
> 	MD5	6597ee9049e4bf911f970b5f498c42bc  -
> 	SHA1	9754806b792145dc3208b68665b23f6d2b5e1682  -
>
> This is the final version of Lua 5.4.0 (rc4).
>
> The main changes in Lua 5.4.0 are listed at
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/doc/#changes
>
> An updated reference manual is included and also available at
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/doc
>
> The complete diffs from rc3 to rc4 are available at
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/diffs-lua-5.4.0-rc3-rc4.html
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/diffu-lua-5.4.0-rc3-rc4.html
>
> To build Lua in a common Unix-like platform, just do
> 	make
> The Makefile will guess your platform using uname and build Lua for it.
> We welcome feedback on this, which is new, especially more uname targets
> with explicit rules and fixes for existing ones.
>
> We also welcome feedback on the listings output by luac -l -l, because
> luac has been rewritten to account for the new VM instructions.
>
> All feedback welcome. Thanks.
> --lhf
Are the tests the same as for RC3?

I get an assertion failure:

***** FILE 'utf8.lua'*****
testing UTF-8 library
   234     236     237     239 
240     242     243     245 
246 
..................................................................................................G:\root\main\core\Lua\install\lua-build\Lua-5.4.0-rc4-newbuild\lua\bin\lua.exe: 
utf8.lua:11: assertion failed!
stack traceback:
	[C]: in function 'assert'
	utf8.lua:11: in local 'checkerror'
	utf8.lua:118: in main chunk
	(...tail calls...)
	all.lua:193: in main chunk
	[C]: in ?
>>> closing state <<<



My setup is:

Windows-7 SP1 64bit
TDM-GCC 32bit

I had no problem with the same setup with RC3.

-- Lorenzo