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.
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.
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.)
The array part of a table wastes too much space, due to padding.
To avoid that, we need to store values in the array as something
different from a TValue. Therefore, the API for table access
should not assume that any value in a table lives in a *TValue.
This commit is the first step to remove that assumption: functions
luaH_get*, instead of returning a *TValue where the value lives,
receive a *TValue where to put the value being accessed.
(We still have to change the luaH_set* functions.)
Because error handling (luaG_errormsg) uses slots from EXTRA_STACK,
and some errors can recur (e.g., string overflow while creating an
error message in 'luaG_runerror', or a C-stack overflow before calling
the message handler), the code should use stack slots with parsimony.
This commit fixes the bug "Lua-stack overflow when C stack overflows
while handling an error".
luaV_execute should compute 'ra' only when the instruction uses it.
Computing an illegal address is undefined behavior even if the address
is never dereferenced.
'luaD_pretailcall' mimics 'luaD_precall', handling call metamethods
and calling C functions directly. That makes the code in the
interpreter loop simpler.
This commit also goes back to emulating the tail call in 'luaD_precall'
with a goto, as C compilers may not do proper tail calls and the C
stack can overflow much sooner than the Lua stack (which grows as the
metamethod is added to it).
The parameters 'nresults' and 'delta1', in 'luaD_precall', were never
meaningful simultaneously. So, they were combined in a single parameter
'retdel'.
Some places don't need the "fast path" macro tointegerns, either
because speed is not essential (lcode.c) or because the value is not
supposed to be an integer already (luaV_equalobj and luaG_tointerror).
Moreover, luaV_equalobj should always use F2Ieq, even if Lua is
compiled to "round to floor".
More uses of macros 'likely'/'unlikely' (renamed to
'l_likely'/'l_unlikely'), both in range (extended to the
libraries) and in scope (extended to hooks, stack growth).
To-be-closed variables are linked in their own list, embedded into the
stack elements. (Due to alignment, this information does not change
the size of the stack elements in most architectures.) This new list
does not produce garbage and avoids memory errors when creating tbc
variables.
