OT: 'best' dynamic language

[Igor Sysoev]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 05:28:38PM +0200, Manlio Perillo wrote:

> Manlio Perillo ha scritto:
> >[...]
> >I have written a small program and I can confirm that opened files are 
> >correctly closed when the Lua interpreter is finalized.
> >
> >The program is attached: the Lua code simply open a big file and read 
> >all its content in memory.
> >
> >There is a custom memory allocator that make sure to fail when a large 
> >amount of memory is required.
> >
> >
> >There is a strange behaviour, however.
> >The status code returned by luaL_dostring should be
> >4 (LUA_ERRMEM), instead 1 is returned.
> >
> 
> Ok, solved.
> 
> The last luaL_dostring should be replaced with:
> 
>   status = luaL_loadstring(L, CHUNCK_2);
>   if (status != 0) {
>     printf("syntax error in CHUNK_2\n");
>     return EXIT_FAILURE;
>   }
> 
>   status = lua_pcall(L, 0, 0, 0);
>   msg = lua_tolstring(L, 1, &len);
>   printf("execution status 2: %i:%s\n", status, msg);
> 
> 
> since luaL_dostring always returns 1 in case of errors.
> 
> 
> Updated code is here: http://rafb.net/p/yOVhjw87.html

Thank you for your investigation. I will look Lua.


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