Some old systems (e.g., Mac OS X 10.4) do not define
'rl_inhibit_completion', even when line history is available.
Anyway, the user can configure this option externally, using '~/.inputrc'.
These operations also can give errors for lack of resources, so they
also will try "emergency collections" in case of resource errors.
Because there are now two libraries with that kind of handling,
'resourcetryagain' was moved to the auxiliary library to be shared
by the libraries.
From the point of view of 'git', all names are relative to the root
directory of the project. So, file names in '$Id:' also should be
relative to that directory: the proper name for test file 'all.lua'
is 'testes/all.lua'.
If a file operation fails do to lack of resources (too many open
files or not enough memory), it does a full garbage collection and
tries the operation again. Lack of resources are "too many open
files" (process wise and system wise) and "not enough memory".
The code is full of '#if's because error codes are not part
of the standard ISO C.
During generational collection, a userdatum must become gray and
go to a gray list after being traversed (like tables), so that
'correctgraylist' can handle it to its next stage.
This commit also added minimum tests for the generational collector,
including one that would detect this bug.
An 'int' may have only 16 bits, so it may not be big enough for UTF-8
values. The new type 'utfint' (in the utf8 library) ensures at least
21 bits for those values.
The counter 'nCcalls' now includes the number of CallInfo structures
pre-allocated (so that these "potential" C calls can be made without
checking 'nCcalls'). So, when copying this value from a thread to
another, in 'lua_resume', it must be corrected to the number of
CallInfo structures in the thread being resumed.
When creating code for a jump on a 'not' condition, the code generator
was removing an instruction (the OP_NOT) without adjusting its
corresponding line information.
This fix also added tests for this case and extra functionality in
the test library to debug line info. structures.
When Lua is building large long-duration structures, frequent small
minor collections just waste time. Trying to avoid this, the
collector will do a larger pause after a major collection when it
does not collect enough garbage (which is a hint that memory is
being used for long-lasting objects).
When creating error messages, package loaders may create dozens of
temporary strings (one or more for each tried template). This change
reduces the number of these strings, and avoid creating some of
them if the search is successful.
The array with the names of the opcodes was moved to a header file
('lopnames.h'), as it is not used by the Lua kernel. Files that need
that array ('luac.c' and 'ltests.c') include the header file to get
a private (static) copy.
Roberto Ierusalimschy