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Martin Eden, … bil til13

1:01 PM

RFC: string.sub() address limits

On 2025-09-04 14:13, bil til wrote: > Am Di., 2. Sept. 2025 um 18:13 Uhr schrieb 'Martin Eden

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RFC: string.sub() address limits

On 2025-09-04 14:13, bil til wrote: > Am Di., 2. Sept. 2025 um 18:13 Uhr schrieb 'Martin Eden

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Benny Isaacs, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo2

11:01 AM

Potential Security issue

> I've discovered a UAF in Lua which leads to native code execution. > How can I report it

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Potential Security issue

> I've discovered a UAF in Lua which leads to native code execution. > How can I report it

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David Favro, Roberto Ierusalimschy5

Sep 2

-O3 triggers compiler warning [x86_64, Linux, gcc]

> > > On September 1, 2025 8:32:58 PM UTC, David Favro <l...@meta-dynamic.com> wrote:

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-O3 triggers compiler warning [x86_64, Linux, gcc]

> > > On September 1, 2025 8:32:58 PM UTC, David Favro <l...@meta-dynamic.com> wrote:

Sep 2

Caio Madeira, … Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo3

Sep 2

How do you contribute to Lua's resources while still being in line with its philosophy?

See https://www.lua.org/faq.html#1.8 https://www.lua.org/faq.html#1.9 https://www.lua.org/faq.html#

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How do you contribute to Lua's resources while still being in line with its philosophy?

See https://www.lua.org/faq.html#1.8 https://www.lua.org/faq.html#1.9 https://www.lua.org/faq.html#

Sep 2

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, … Luau Project13

Sep 1

Makefile targets

> The motivation is that we have no access to these platforms and so no > way to test these

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Makefile targets

> The motivation is that we have no access to these platforms and so no > way to test these

Sep 1

Roger Leigh, … Roberto Ierusalimschy27

Sep 1

Use of C89 vs C99

> uint8 -> unsigned char > > uint16_t -> unsigned short > > uint32_t ->

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Use of C89 vs C99

> uint8 -> unsigned char > > uint16_t -> unsigned short > > uint32_t ->

Sep 1

Родион Горковенко, … bil til14

Sep 1

Compound assignments as an exercise - hints welcome

Am So., 31. Aug. 2025 um 15:30 Uhr schrieb Frank Dana (FeRD) <fer...@gmail.com>: > > Is

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Compound assignments as an exercise - hints welcome

Am So., 31. Aug. 2025 um 15:30 Uhr schrieb Frank Dana (FeRD) <fer...@gmail.com>: > > Is

Sep 1

mohammadbagher bidram, … bil til13

Aug 31

How Can I Grow as a Young Lua Programmer?

Am So., 31. Aug. 2025 um 11:47 Uhr schrieb mohammadbagher bidram <mbbidr...@gmail.com>: >

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How Can I Grow as a Young Lua Programmer?

Am So., 31. Aug. 2025 um 11:47 Uhr schrieb mohammadbagher bidram <mbbidr...@gmail.com>: >

Aug 31

Aug 31

The book "Programming in Lua" is correct. If you have problems to follow the examples there

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The book "Programming in Lua" is correct. If you have problems to follow the examples there

Aug 31

Aug 30

[PATCH] Test portability fixes for 5.5.0-beta

Hi, I've spent the last day updating my CMake build for Lua to work with the 5.5.0-beta release,

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[PATCH] Test portability fixes for 5.5.0-beta

Hi, I've spent the last day updating my CMake build for Lua to work with the 5.5.0-beta release,

Aug 30

Luau Project, … Edoardo Lolletti13

Aug 27

Review fseek on MinGW / MinGW-w64 on Windows prior to Lua 5.5.0 official release

> Regarding this issue, wouldn't be easier to use the windows api for > these cases? Using

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Review fseek on MinGW / MinGW-w64 on Windows prior to Lua 5.5.0 official release

> Regarding this issue, wouldn't be easier to use the windows api for > these cases? Using

Aug 27

Rett Berg, … Philippe Verdy29

Aug 27

table.push(t, ...) method?

Le ven. 22 août 2025 à 02:46, mjmouse9999 <mjmou...@gmail.com> a écrit : On Friday, August

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table.push(t, ...) method?

Le ven. 22 août 2025 à 02:46, mjmouse9999 <mjmou...@gmail.com> a écrit : On Friday, August

Aug 27

Sainan, … Philippe Verdy8

Aug 27

utf8.offset acknowledges null terminator

Le dim. 24 août 2025 à 16:31, Roberto Ierusalimschy <rob...@inf.puc-rio.br> a écrit : > Hi,

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utf8.offset acknowledges null terminator

Le dim. 24 août 2025 à 16:31, Roberto Ierusalimschy <rob...@inf.puc-rio.br> a écrit : > Hi,

Aug 27

nobody, Roberto Ierusalimschy4

Aug 27

Lua 5.4 (+ 5.5 too probably) OP_SETLIST 32 bit index overflow reachable from Lua source code

> On 2025-08-26 20:37, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote: > > Can you check whether this change

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Lua 5.4 (+ 5.5 too probably) OP_SETLIST 32 bit index overflow reachable from Lua source code

> On 2025-08-26 20:37, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote: > > Can you check whether this change

Aug 27

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo

Aug 25

The paper "Lua in TeX" by Hans Hagen has appeared online in the Journal of Computer

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The paper "Lua in TeX" by Hans Hagen has appeared online in the Journal of Computer

Aug 25

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, … Roberto Ierusalimschy67

Aug 20

[ANN] Lua 5.5.0 (beta) now available

> Few other comments/nitpicks I have noticed: > > [...] Many thanks for the feedback. We

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[ANN] Lua 5.5.0 (beta) now available

> Few other comments/nitpicks I have noticed: > > [...] Many thanks for the feedback. We

Aug 20

Steven, … Sainan3

Aug 19

Does this solve the string __index problem?

We do something similar in Pluto, but instead the check for a number is done in C/the VM. But if you

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Does this solve the string __index problem?

We do something similar in Pluto, but instead the check for a number is done in C/the VM. But if you

Aug 19

Sergey Kaplun, Roberto Ierusalimschy2

Aug 19

Question about inconsistent errmssg for the ERRMEM in the error handler.

> According to the documentation [1]: > > LUA_ERRERR: error while running the message

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Question about inconsistent errmssg for the ERRMEM in the error handler.

> According to the documentation [1]: > > LUA_ERRERR: error while running the message

Aug 19

Aug 16

[ANN] hram-lua: Lua + Asm + retro UI

Hi everyone. I made a Windows app that lets you generate native assembly on the fly using Lua, and

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[ANN] hram-lua: Lua + Asm + retro UI

Hi everyone. I made a Windows app that lets you generate native assembly on the fly using Lua, and

Aug 16

Sergey Bronnikov, … Roberto Ierusalimschy7

Aug 9

Inconsistencies in Lua 5.4 Reference Manual

> This is exactly the behavior I'm talking about. The documentation doesn't > say that

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Inconsistencies in Lua 5.4 Reference Manual

> This is exactly the behavior I'm talking about. The documentation doesn't > say that

Aug 9

Abigail Brady, … Gé Weijers3

Aug 6

freezing globals & tables

On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 4:48 AM Abigail Brady <elcat...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi! [...] We have

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freezing globals & tables

On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 4:48 AM Abigail Brady <elcat...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi! [...] We have

Aug 6

Scott Condit, Sainan5

Jul 27

lua 5.5 failing on C++ Exceptions (Linux)

Nevermind, I just double-checked my script to build it as C++ and apparently I do set LUA_USE_LONGJMP

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lua 5.5 failing on C++ Exceptions (Linux)

Nevermind, I just double-checked my script to build it as C++ and apparently I do set LUA_USE_LONGJMP

Jul 27

LordMZTE, … Thijs Schreijer9

Jul 24

Implementing non-blocking IO in a C application that embeds Lua using coroutines while supporting user corountines

On Wed, 23 Jul 2025, at 23:02, Rett Berg wrote: My fd library solves this by running the C code in a

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Implementing non-blocking IO in a C application that embeds Lua using coroutines while supporting user corountines

On Wed, 23 Jul 2025, at 23:02, Rett Berg wrote: My fd library solves this by running the C code in a

Jul 24

Federico Zuluaga-Knorr, Sainan5

Jul 23

[ANN] Beta of Tenum – fullstack serverless SaaS development with Lua + Luact

we changed it. Thx for the feedback! -- Federico Am Mi., 23. Juli 2025 um 13:35 Uhr schrieb '

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[ANN] Beta of Tenum – fullstack serverless SaaS development with Lua + Luact

we changed it. Thx for the feedback! -- Federico Am Mi., 23. Juli 2025 um 13:35 Uhr schrieb '

Jul 23

Benoit Germain, Roberto Ierusalimschy5

Jul 23

lua_dump vs Lua 5.4 and Lua 5.5

> Sorry, my observations about what happens when I call lua_dump are > slightly wrong. It

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lua_dump vs Lua 5.4 and Lua 5.5

> Sorry, my observations about what happens when I call lua_dump are > slightly wrong. It

Jul 23

Vijaya Kumar, … Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo3

Jul 23

Can any one Help me with the information If LUA 5.3.3 is still supported!? If not what is the newer

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Can any one Help me with the information If LUA 5.3.3 is still supported!? If not what is the newer

Jul 23

云风 Cloud Wu, Sainan4

Jul 23

Suggestion : More fixed binaries

云风 Cloud Wu <clo...@gmail.com> 于2025年7月23日周三 18:16写道： > > In order to implement it, we

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Suggestion : More fixed binaries

云风 Cloud Wu <clo...@gmail.com> 于2025年7月23日周三 18:16写道： > > In order to implement it, we

Jul 23

Matěj Cepl, … gottfried leibniz6

Jul 21

lua55: test suite fails on i586

I should add this reproduction requires LUA_32BITS to be zero in luaconf thereby making the

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lua55: test suite fails on i586

I should add this reproduction requires LUA_32BITS to be zero in luaconf thereby making the

Jul 21

Steven, … mjmouse99997

Jul 20

Suggestion for Lua 5.5: search current exe for luaopen_* first

> On Friday, July 18, 2025 at 11:16:33 PM UTC+10 ppp vvv wrote: > with C api i guess you could

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Suggestion for Lua 5.5: search current exe for luaopen_* first

> On Friday, July 18, 2025 at 11:16:33 PM UTC+10 ppp vvv wrote: > with C api i guess you could

Jul 20

Jakit Liang, … blog...@gmail.com4

Jul 20

Lower-case as key would slower, and why?

Thanks for your testing result! It is useful for me. 在2025年7月21日星期一 UTC+8 00:16:44<blog...@gmail.

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Lower-case as key would slower, and why?

Thanks for your testing result! It is useful for me. 在2025年7月21日星期一 UTC+8 00:16:44<blog...@gmail.

Jul 20

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