Conversion float->string ensures that, for any float f,
tonumber(tostring(f)) == f, but still avoiding noise like 1.1
converting to "1.1000000000000001".
That reduces the size of "CallInfo". Moreover, bit CIST_HOOKED from
call status is not needed. When in a hook, 'transferinfo' is always
valid, being zero when the hook is not call/return.
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.
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.
'incomplete' was popping error message that should be used in case
there is no more lines to complete the input, that is, 'pushline'
returns NULL, due to end of file.
(See comments in luaconf.h.) This change allows easier compilation,
as Lua compiles and works even if the package 'readline' is absent
from the system. Moreover, non-interactive uses don't load the library,
making the stand-alone slightly faster for small loads.
Macro moved to llimits.h, and casts from void* to lua_CFunction first
go through 'voidf' (a pointer to a function from void to void), a kind
of void* for functions.
New instruction format 'ivABC' (a variant of iABC where parameter vC has
10 bits) allows constructors of up to 1024 elements to be coded without
EXTRAARG.
Instead of a fixed limit of 50 registers (which, in a bad worst case,
can limit the nesting of constructors to 5 levels), the compiler
computes an individual limit for each constructor based on how many
registers are available when it runs. This limit then controls the
frequency of SETLIST instructions.
The definitions in llimits.h are useful not only for the core. That
header only defines types and '#define's, so libs and core still do
not share any real code/data.
Several definitions that don't need to be "global" (that is, that
concerns only specific parts of the code) moved out of llimits.h,
to more appropriate places.
Set errno to zero before calling any function where we may use its
errno, and check errno for zero before using it (as functions may not
set it even in error). The code assumes that no function will put
garbage on errno (although ISO C allows that): If any function during an
operation set errno, and the operation result in an error, assume that
errno has something to say.
Undoing previous commit. Returning TValue increases code size without
any visible gains. Returning the tag is a little simpler than returning
a special code (HOK/HNOTFOUND) and the tag is useful by itself in
some cases.
Instead of receiving a parameter telling them where to put the result
of the query, these functions return the TValue directly. (That is,
they return a structure.)
