[Oddity] _G in package.loaded

[Martin Eden]

Hello list,

While working on my deploy generator I discovered that
"_G" is present in "package.loaded":

  $ lua
  Lua 5.5.0  Copyright (C) 1994-2025 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
  > package.loaded._G
  table: 0x55fb5ddbcbc0

I expect this table be name map for modules loaded via require().
(And no, I have no "require('_G')" in my code.)

Any ideas why it's so?

-- Martin

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo]

> "_G" is present in "package.loaded":

> Any ideas why it's so?

https://www.lua.org/source/5.5/linit.c.html
https://www.lua.org/source/5.5/lauxlib.h.html#LUA_GNAME

[Martin Eden]

Yeah but my "why" was aimed for different plane.

-- Martin

[ppp vvv]

> And no, I have no "require('_G')" in my code

you do have luaL_openlibs before your code.

string library is loaded into table called  'string'  -> package.loaded.string

os library is loaded into table called  'os' -> package.loaded.os

base library loaded directly into _G table

пятница, 12 июня 2026 г. в 16:06:39 UTC+2, Martin Eden: