Details

- Some api_checknelems changed to the more restrict api_checkpop.
- Added a class to the html for APIs in the manual.
- Comments and manual.

lapi.c

@@ -1210,7 +1210,7 @@ LUA_API int lua_gc (lua_State *L, int what, ...) {
       else if (g->GCdebt >= n - MAX_LMEM)  /* no overflow? */
         newdebt = g->GCdebt - n;
       else  /* overflow */
-        newdebt = -MAX_LMEM;  /* set debt to miminum value */
+        newdebt = -MAX_LMEM;  /* set debt to mininum value */
       luaE_setdebt(g, newdebt);
       luaC_condGC(L, (void)0, work = 1);
       if (work && g->gcstate == GCSpause)  /* end of cycle? */
@@ -1299,8 +1299,8 @@ LUA_API void lua_toclose (lua_State *L, int idx) {
 
 LUA_API void lua_concat (lua_State *L, int n) {
   lua_lock(L);
-  api_checknelems(L, n);
   if (n > 0) {
+    api_checkpop(L, n);
     luaV_concat(L, n);
     luaC_checkGC(L);
   }
@@ -1418,7 +1418,7 @@ LUA_API const char *lua_setupvalue (lua_State *L, int funcindex, int n) {
   TValue *fi;
   lua_lock(L);
   fi = index2value(L, funcindex);
-  api_checknelems(L, 1);
+  api_checkpop(L, 1);
   name = aux_upvalue(fi, n, &val, &owner);
   if (name) {
     L->top.p--;

luaconf.h

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
 #if defined(LUA_USE_MACOSX)
 #define LUA_USE_POSIX
 #define LUA_USE_DLOPEN		/* macOS does not need -ldl */
-#define LUA_USE_READLINE
+#define LUA_USE_READLINE	/* needs an extra library: -lreadline */
 #endif
 
 

lvm.c

@@ -925,7 +925,7 @@ void luaV_finishOp (lua_State *L) {
 ** Macros for arithmetic/bitwise/comparison opcodes in 'luaV_execute'
 **
 ** All these macros are to be used exclusively inside the main
-** iterpreter loop (function luaV_execute) and may access directly
+** interpreter loop (function luaV_execute) and may access directly
 ** the local variables of that function (L, i, pc, ci, etc.).
 ** ===================================================================
 */

manual/2html

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ end
 
 local function compose (f,g)
   assert(f and g)
-  return function (s) return g(f(s)) end
+  return function (...) return g(f(...)) end
 end
 
 local function concat (f, g)
@@ -395,9 +395,10 @@ APIEntry = function (e)
   local apiicmd, ne = string.match(e, "^(.-</span>)(.*)")
 --io.stderr:write(e)
   if not apiicmd then
-    return antipara(Tag.hr() .. Tag.h3(a)) .. Tag.pre(h) .. e
+    return antipara(Tag.hr() .. Tag.h3(a)) .. Tag.pre(h, {class="api"}) .. e
   else
-    return antipara(Tag.hr() .. Tag.h3(a)) .. apiicmd .. Tag.pre(h) .. ne
+    return antipara(Tag.hr() .. Tag.h3(a)) .. apiicmd ..
+                    Tag.pre(h, {class="api"}) .. ne
   end
 end,
 

manual/manual.of

@@ -1728,7 +1728,7 @@ global X <const>, _G
 X = 1           -- ERROR
 _ENV.X = 1      -- Ok
 _G.print(X)     -- Ok
-foo()         -- 'foo' can freely change any global
+foo()           -- 'foo' can freely change any global
 }
 
 A chunk is also a block @see{chunks},
@@ -6071,6 +6071,14 @@ In both cases,
 the function pushes onto the stack the final value associated
 with @id{tname} in the registry.
 
+Usage note: Beware the use of the return value of this function to
+conditionally initializes the new metatable
+(e.g., by adding metamethods to it).
+If the initialization raises an error,
+the metatable will not be properly initialized,
+but a subsequent execution of that code will detect that the
+metatable already exists and then skip the initialization.
+
 }
 
 @APIEntry{lua_State *luaL_newstate (void);|