Re: Heap overflow in luaH_get

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

>  Roberto> But keep in mind that the age difference is potentially
>  Roberto> unbounded, as an object can have its metatable set way after
>  Roberto> being created.
> 
> Presumably not unbounded, because if the table is already old when the
> metatable is set, then the barrier that is done when setting the
> metatable will advance the metatable's age to OLD0. [...]

Thanks for the correction. Again, I did not express myself correctly :-(
What I was trying the say was that the the object being moved to the
beginning of the finobj list could be "unbounded" old.

-- Roberto