On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 07:55:47PM -0500, John Belmonte wrote: > If I understand correctly, I think this is a misdesign of the Lua > standard intepreter. It should not be mapping command line argument > words to Lua arguments precisely because there is an arbitrary (and > relatively low) limit on chunk args. Instead, lua should assemble the > command line arguments into a Lua list, and pass that list to the script > chunk as a single argument. Since Lua list length is virtually > unlimited, there will be no such issue with command line length.
IIRC, the lua interpreter passes arguments both as '...' and 'arg', while the latter is a table and is built witha C for loop not using more then 2 stack slots, the former is built as a closure (or function call) thus all arguments are pushend on the stack and then a lua_pcall is performed. The patch (not setting '...') is easy and even discused on the lua mailing list, but is clearly a drift from the upstream I'd like not to perform. Cheers -- Enrico Tassi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
