- Macro 'checkliveness' (for debug) always uses 'L', to avoid warnings.
- Some old 'while' changed to 'for' in 'testes/gc.lua'.
- In 'testes/libs/makefile', do not make files depend on 'ltests.h',
which may not even exist.
This commit brings a new implementation for HARDMEMTESTS, which forces
an emergency GC whenever possible. It also fixes some issues detected
with this option:
- A small bug in lvm.c: a closure could be collected by an emergency
GC while being initialized.
- Some tests: a memory address can be immediatly reused after a GC;
for instance, two consecutive '{}' expressions can return exactly the
same address, if the first one is not anchored.
OP_RETURN must update trap before updating stack. (Bug detected with
-DHARDSTACKTESTS). Also, in 'luaF_close', do not create a variable
with 'uplevel(uv)', as the stack may change and invalidate this
value. (This is not a bug, but could become one if 'upl' was used
again.)
Constants directly assigned to other constants were not propagating:
For instance, in
local <const> k1 = 10
local <const> k2 = k1
'k2' were not treated as a compile-time constant.
String literal expressions have their own kind VKSTR, instead of the
generic VK. This allows strings to "cross" functions without entering
their constant tables (e.g., if they are used only by some nested
function).
An error in a closing method may be caused by a lack of resources,
such as memory or stack space, and the error may free enough resources
(by unwinding the stack) to allow the method to work if called again.
If the closing method is already running after some error (including
its own), it is not called again.
Opcodes OP_NEWTABLE and OP_SETLIST use the same representation to
store the size of the array part of a table. This new representation
can go up to 2^33 (8 + 25 bits).
OP_NEWTABLE is followed by an OP_EXTRAARG, so that it can keep
the exact size of the array part of the table to be created.
(Functions 'luaO_int2fb'/'luaO_fb2int' were removed.)
In the generic for loop, it is simpler for OP_TFORLOOP to use the
same 'ra' as OP_TFORCALL. Moreover, the internal names of the loop
temporaries "(for ...)" don't need to leak internal details (even
because the numerical for loop doesn't have a fixed role for each of
its temporaries).
This commit detaches the number of active variables from the
number of variables in the stack, during compilation. Soon,
compile-time constants will be propagated and therefore will
not exist during run time (in the stack).
VLOCAL expressions keep a reference to their corresponding 'Vardesc',
and 'Upvaldesc' (for upvalues) has a field 'ro' (read-only). So, it is
easier to check whether a variable is read-only. The decoupling in
VLOCAL between 'vidx' ('Vardesc' index) and 'sidx' (stack index)
should also help the forthcoming implementation of compile-time
constant propagation.
The syntax for local attributes ('const'/'toclose') was unified with
the regular syntax for local variables, so that we can have variables
with attributes in local definitions with multiple names; for instance:
local <toclose> f, <const> err = io.open(fname)
This new syntax does not implement constant propagation, yet.
This commit also has some small improvements to the manual.
In the 'io' library, changed the use of the metatable also as its
own "method table", so that metamethods cannot be accessed as if they
were methods. (For instance, 'io.stdin.__gc' does not result in
the finalizer metamethod anymore.)
- Better documentation in 'testes/cstack.lua' about using
'debug.setCstacklimit' to find a good limit.
- Constant LUAI_MAXCSTACK gets added CSTACKERR (extra stack for
error handling), so that it is compatible with the argument to
'debug.setCstacklimit'.
- Added a test for calling 'debug.traceback' after yields inside
hooks. (Lua 5.3 seems to have a bug there.)
- Removed test "repeat test with '__open' metamethod instead of a
function", as the previous test already uses the '__open' metamethod.
(It changed when functions were removed as possible to-be-closed
variables).
Removed the field 'name' from the structure 'Vardesc', as the name
of the local variable is already available in the prototype of the
function, through the index 'idx'.
Ensure that operation macros, such as 'luai_numdiv' and 'luai_numidiv',
operate only on variables, or at most at 's2v(ra)'. ('s2v' is a nop, a
cast from pointer to pointer.)
When there are multiple errors when closing objects, the error
reported by the protected call is the first one, for two reasons:
First, other errors may be caused by this one;
second, the first error is handled in the original execution context,
and therefore has the full traceback.
Instead of a 'tocont' flag, the function 'warn' in Lua now receives all
message pieces as multiple arguments in a single call. Besides being
simpler to use, this implementation ensures that Lua code cannot create
unfinished warnings.
- tests show progress in real time, so that we can see maximum
stack levels even if test crashes.
- new test for recursion continuing into message handler.
'luaL_traceback' changed to use an aux buffer instead of concats.
This should reduce the quantity of garbage it generates (in the
form of intermediate strings) while producing a trackback.
It also added information about the number of levels skipped when
skipping levels in a trace.
- new error message for "attempt to assign to const variable"
- note in the manual about compatibility options
- comments
- small changes in 'read_line' and 'pushstr'
- The preprocessor must work with at least 'long', and therefore must
do shifts of up to 31 bits correctly.
- Whenever possible, use unsigned types in shifts.
The flag for to-be-closed variables was changed from '*toclose'
to '<toclose>'. Several people found confusing the old syntax and
the new one has a clear terminator, making it more flexible for
future changes.
Back to how it was, a coroutine does not unwind its stack in case of
errors (and therefore do not close its to-be-closed variables). This
allows the stack to be examined after the error. The program can
use 'coroutine.kill' to close the variables.
The function created by 'coroutine.wrap', however, closes the
coroutine's variables in case of errors, as it is impossible to examine
the stack any way.
