Roberto Ierusalimschy
fd897027f1
A coroutine can close itself
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A call to close itself will close all its to-be-closed variables and
return to the resume that (re)started the coroutine.
2025-06-12 11:15:09 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
d05fe48bfd
Loading a binary chunk should not break assertions
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Although the execution of a bad binary chunk can crash the interpreter,
simply loading it should be safe.
2025-06-04 12:55:43 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
6d53701c7a
Proper error message when jumping into 'global *'
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A goto cannot jump into the scope of any variable declaration,
including 'global *'. To report the error, it needs a "name" for
the scope it is entering.
2025-05-18 12:03:54 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
abbae57c78
Variable attributes can prefix name list
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In this format, the attribute applies to all names in the list;
e.g. "global<const> print, require, math".
2025-05-18 11:43:43 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
3b9dd52be0
Collective declaration for globals ('global *')
2025-05-13 11:43:10 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
3f0ea90aa8
New syntax 'global function'
2025-05-08 11:08:03 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
be81209063
First implementation of global declarations
2025-05-05 16:24:59 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
3f4f28010a
io.write returns number of written bytes on error
2025-04-03 11:32:49 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
fdbb4c2341
Detail in the manual
2025-03-17 16:05:47 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
d9e0f64a5d
Small changes in the manual
2025-03-12 15:45:39 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
ee99452158
Error object cannot be nil
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Lua will change a nil as error object to a string message, so that it
never reports an error with nil as the error object.
2025-02-28 14:53:58 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
127a8e80fe
'__close' gets no error object if there is no error
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Instead of receiving nil as a second argument, __close metamethods are
called with just one argument when there are no errors.
2025-02-28 10:10:27 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
ceac82f78b
Details
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Comments, small changes in the manual, an extra test for errors in
error handling, small changes in tests.
2025-02-26 11:29:54 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
c4e7cdb541
Renaming two new functions
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'lua_numbertostrbuff' -> 'lua_numbertocstring'
'lua_pushextlstring' -> 'lua_pushexternalstring'
2025-01-27 16:09:55 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
7d7ae8781e
Parameters for 'lua_createtable' back to int
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Tables don't accept sizes larger than int.
2025-01-21 13:33:59 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
3cdd49c94a
Fixed conversion warnings from clang
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Plus some other details. (Option '-Wuninitialized' was removed from
the makefile because it is already enabled by -Wall.)
2025-01-14 16:24:46 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
915c29f8bd
Improvements in the manual
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Plus details
2025-01-10 15:11:54 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
50c7c915ee
Debug information about extra arguments from __call
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'debug.getinfo' can return number of extra arguments added to a call by
a chain of __call metavalues. That information is being used to improve
error messages about errors in these extra arguments.
2024-11-19 14:09:18 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
b117bdb344
Counter for length of chains of __call metamethods
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This counter will allow (in a later commit) error messages to correct
argument numbers in functions called through __call metamethods.
2024-11-16 12:00:28 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
e3ce88c9e8
New function 'lua_numbertostrbuff'
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It converts a Lua number to a string in a buffer, without creating
a new Lua string.
2024-10-23 17:16:17 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
d0815046d0
Some adjustments in transition minor->major
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Plus extra comments and other details.
2024-10-18 17:10:20 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
3d54b42d59
'objsize' broke in smaller pieces
2024-09-30 14:01:42 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
20d42ccaae
No errors in 'luaO_pushvfstring'
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Any call to 'va_start' must have a corresponding call to 'va_end';
so, functions called between them (luaO_pushvfstring in particular)
cannot raise errors.
2024-09-20 15:56:39 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
4901853c11
Parameter for lua_gc/LUA_GCSTEP changed to 'size_t'
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'size_t' is the common type for measuring memory. 'int' can be too
small for steps.
2024-09-10 17:05:39 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
0acd55898d
Added gcc option '-Wconversion'
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No warnings for standard numerical types. Still pending alternative
numerical types.
2024-07-27 13:32:59 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
a546138d15
Explicit limit for number of results in a call
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The parameter 'nresults' in 'lua_call' and similar functions has a
limit of 250. It already had an undocumented (and unchecked) limit of
SHRT_MAX, but it is seldom larger than 2.
2024-07-18 14:44:40 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
cd4de92762
Maximum stack size may not fit in unsigned short
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Therefore, fields ftransfer/ntransfer in lua_Debug must have type
'int'. (Maximum stack size must fit in an 'int'.) Also, this commit
adds check that maximum stack size respects size_t for size in bytes.
2024-07-16 11:33:30 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
c1dc08e8e8
Length of external strings must fit in Lua integer
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(As the length of any string in Lua.)
2024-06-24 12:03:59 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
0f7025dcae
Details in the manual
2024-06-21 16:36:24 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
bdc85357aa
Bug: Active-lines for stripped vararg functions
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Lua seg. faults when asked to create the 'activelines' table for a
vararg function with no debug information.
2024-06-04 17:27:13 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
b291008cc2
Manual for 'string.format' lists what it accepts
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Instead of listing what it does not accept, which is always relative.
2024-06-04 16:51:31 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
814213b65f
utf8.offset returns also final position of character
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'utf8.offset' returns two values: the initial and the final position
of the given character.
2024-05-27 11:29:39 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
cbdf4969ec
Manual: errors in lua_toclose are not memory errors
2024-05-23 09:55:26 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
262dc5729a
Details
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Corrections in comments and manual. Added note in the manual about
local variables in the REPL.
2024-05-08 17:50:10 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
86a8e74824
Details
2024-03-28 17:11:33 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
165389b27b
New interface to function 'luaL_openselectedlibs'
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Instead of preloading all non-loaded libraries, there is another
mask to select which libraries to preload.
2024-02-15 11:17:39 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
0c9bec0d38
Better handling of size limit when resizing a table
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Avoid silent conversions from int to unsigned int when calling
'luaH_resize'; avoid silent conversions from lua_Integer to int in
'table.create'; MAXASIZE corrected for the new implementation of arrays;
'luaH_resize' checks explicitly whether new size respects MAXASIZE.
(Even constructors were bypassing that check.)
2024-02-07 13:39:54 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
c31d6774ac
Details
2024-01-29 14:29:24 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
108e0bdc84
Merge branch 'master' into nextversion
2024-01-25 13:52:52 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
3e9dbe143d
New function 'table.create'
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Creates a table preallocating memory. (It just exports to Lua the API
function 'lua_createtable'.)
2024-01-18 15:16:26 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
4a8e480864
New mechanism to query GC parameters
2024-01-16 17:02:55 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
17e0c29d9b
Clear interface between references and predefines
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The reference system has a defined way to add initial values to the
table where it operates.
2024-01-15 11:31:49 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
7827c40c49
A few more tweaks in the garbage collector
2024-01-10 14:45:58 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
12b6f610b0
Several tweaks in the garbage collector
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- back with step size in collectgarbage("step")
- adjustments in defaults for some GC parameters
- adjustments in 'luaO_codeparam'
2023-12-27 12:09:11 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
e2cc179454
New option "setparms" for 'collectgarbage'
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The generational mode also uses the parameters for the incremental
mode in its major collections, so it should be easy to change those
parameters without having to change the GC mode.
2023-12-22 14:48:07 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
666e95a66d
Option 0 for step multiplier makes GC non-incremental
2023-12-20 11:06:27 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
4eda1acafa
Cleaner protocol between 'lua_dump' and writer function
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'lua_dump' signals to the writer function the end of a dump, so that
is has more freedom when using the stack.
2023-12-14 11:41:57 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
925fe8a0f2
First criteria for shifts minor<->major
2023-12-07 15:45:11 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
842a83f09c
Panic functions should not raise errors
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The standard panic function was using 'lua_tostring', which may raise
a memory-allocation error if error value is a number.
2023-11-24 16:08:55 -03:00
Roberto Ierusalimschy
011850a8f8
Details in the manual
2023-11-24 14:44:38 -03:00