-- $Id: testes/cstack.lua $ -- See Copyright Notice in file all.lua print"testing C-stack overflow detection" -- Segmentation faults in these tests probably result from a C-stack -- overflow. To avoid these errors, recompile Lua with a smaller -- value for the constant 'LUAI_MAXCCALLS' or else ensure a larger -- stack for the program. local function checkerror (msg, f, ...) local s, err = pcall(f, ...) assert(not s and string.find(err, msg)) end do -- simple recursion local count = 0 local function foo () count = count + 1 foo() end checkerror("stack overflow", foo) print(" maximum recursion: " .. count) end -- bug since 2.5 (C-stack overflow in recursion inside pattern matching) do local function f (size) local s = string.rep("a", size) local p = string.rep(".?", size) return string.match(s, p) end local m = f(80) assert(#m == 80) checkerror("too complex", f, 200000) end -- testing stack-overflow in recursive 'gsub' do local count = 0 local function foo () count = count + 1 string.gsub("a", ".", foo) end checkerror("stack overflow", foo) print(" maximum 'gsub' nest (calls): " .. count) -- can be done with metamethods, too count = 0 local t = setmetatable({}, {__index = foo}) foo = function () count = count + 1 string.gsub("a", ".", t) end checkerror("stack overflow", foo) print(" maximum 'gsub' nest (metamethods): " .. count) end print'OK'