Details

Several small improvements (code style, warnings, comments, more tests),
in particular:

- 'lua_topointer' extended to handle strings
- raises an error in 'string.format("%10q")' ('%q' with modifiers)
- in the manual for 'string.format', the term "option" replaced by
  "conversion specifier" (the term used by the C standard)

lstrlib.c

@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ static int str_byte (lua_State *L) {
   size_t pose = getendpos(L, 3, pi, l);
   int n, i;
   if (posi > pose) return 0;  /* empty interval; return no values */
-  if (pose - posi >= INT_MAX)  /* arithmetic overflow? */
+  if (pose - posi >= (size_t)INT_MAX)  /* arithmetic overflow? */
     return luaL_error(L, "string slice too long");
   n = (int)(pose -  posi) + 1;
   luaL_checkstack(L, n, "string slice too long");
@@ -1159,7 +1159,7 @@ static int str_format (lua_State *L) {
       char *buff = luaL_prepbuffsize(&b, MAX_ITEM);  /* to put formatted item */
       int nb = 0;  /* number of bytes in added item */
       if (++arg > top)
-        luaL_argerror(L, arg, "no value");
+        return luaL_argerror(L, arg, "no value");
       strfrmt = scanformat(L, strfrmt, form);
       switch (*strfrmt++) {
         case 'c': {
@@ -1186,6 +1186,8 @@ static int str_format (lua_State *L) {
           break;
         }
         case 'q': {
+          if (form[2] != '\0')  /* modifiers? */
+            return luaL_error(L, "specifier '%%q' cannot have modifiers");
           addliteral(L, &b, arg);
           break;
         }