Also, during the implementation of this, I noticed a problem with the 0.10
memory safety, which is that luaL_ref is also memory unsafe. I attempted to
change the API to support luaL_ref potentially returning Result, but this change
will cause an enormous amount of API chaos, (just as an example, it becomes
impossible to implement Clone for LuaRef as is). Instead, luaL_ref now is
guarded by gc_guard.
Also make sure that panic messages clearly state that they are internal errors,
so people report them as a bug. Since the only panics left are all internal
errors, just move the internal error message into the panic / assert macros.
- Update readme, changelog, cargo version number in preparation for release
- Remove panicking behavior on recursive callback calls, add additional error
variant for recursive callback errors.
- auto formatting
- add gc control to ffi
- add gc_guard to util functions
- use gc_guard to make util error handling functions never trigger __gc
metamethod Lua errors even without __gc metatable wrapper
- sort of a technicality, don't call luaL_requiref outside of the Lua
constructor, as it could trigger the garbage collector when user code has had
a chance to set __gc metamethods. Changes the API to load the debug table.
First, make sure that `add_methods` cannot trigger another userdata registry
insert, causing an unintended panic. Second, remove `RefCell` surrounding
userdata hashmap, as this change makes it no longer needed. Third, add a
`RefCell` around `Callback` because FnMut means that callbacks cannot recurse
into themselves, and panic appropriately when this happens. This should
eventually be turned into an error.
The stock Lua interpreter doesn't do this either. AFAIK the "base" library is supposed to be loaded into "_G" only as it contains functions like `assert` and `error`.
setmetatable now wraps a __gc method in a cclosure that aborts on error, also
'debug' library is no longer provided. We could provide just the subset of the
debug library that is sound, though.
Also rename to/from/pack/unpack to pack/unpack/pack_multi/unpack_multi, I don't
know if this makes their usage clearer, and it IS a bit confusing that I'm
changing the meaning of the words 'pack' and 'unpack'
I didn't yet document *everything* there is to say (in particular, how
exactly custom Rust errors can be passed through Lua), but I've some
changes to this type in mind that I'll do next.
In resume_with_traceback, always use the coroutine stack for error handling so
we don't miss panics, in both _with_traceback functions remove the temporary
traceback entry from the stack.
Jonas Schievink