-- $Id: testes/cstack.lua $ -- See Copyright Notice in file all.lua local debug = require "debug" print"testing C-stack overflow detection" print"If this test crashes, see its file ('cstack.lua')" -- Segmentation faults in these tests probably result from a C-stack -- overflow. To avoid these errors, you can use the function -- 'debug.setcstacklimit' to set a smaller limit for the use of -- C stack by Lua. After finding a reliable limit, you might want -- to recompile Lua with this limit as the value for -- the constant 'LUAI_MAXCCALLS', which defines the default limit. -- (The default limit is printed by this test.) -- Alternatively, you can ensure a larger stack for the program. -- For Linux, a limit up to 30_000 seems Ok. Windows cannot go much -- higher than 2_000. -- get and print original limit local origlimit = debug.setcstacklimit(400) print("default stack limit: " .. origlimit) -- Do the tests using the original limit. Or else you may want to change -- 'currentlimit' to lower values to avoid a seg. fault or to higher -- values to check whether they are reliable. local currentlimit = origlimit debug.setcstacklimit(currentlimit) print("current stack limit: " .. currentlimit) local function checkerror (msg, f, ...) local s, err = pcall(f, ...) assert(not s and string.find(err, msg)) end -- auxiliary function to keep 'count' on the screen even if the program -- crashes. local count local back = string.rep("\b", 8) local function progress () count = count + 1 local n = string.format("%-8d", count) io.stderr:write(back, n) -- erase previous value and write new one end do print("testing simple recursion:") count = 0 local function foo () progress() foo() -- do recursive calls until a stack error (or crash) end checkerror("stack overflow", foo) print("\tfinal count: ", count) end do print("testing stack overflow in message handling") count = 0 local function loop (x, y, z) progress() return 1 + loop(x, y, z) end local res, msg = xpcall(loop, loop) assert(msg == "error in error handling") print("\tfinal count: ", count) end -- bug since 2.5 (C-stack overflow in recursion inside pattern matching) do print("testing recursion inside pattern matching") local function f (size) local s = string.rep("a", size) local p = string.rep(".?", size) return string.match(s, p) end local m = f(80) assert(#m == 80) checkerror("too complex", f, 200000) end do print("testing stack-overflow in recursive 'gsub'") count = 0 local function foo () progress() string.gsub("a", ".", foo) end checkerror("stack overflow", foo) print("\tfinal count: ", count) print("testing stack-overflow in recursive 'gsub' with metatables") count = 0 local t = setmetatable({}, {__index = foo}) foo = function () count = count + 1 progress(count) string.gsub("a", ".", t) end checkerror("stack overflow", foo) print("\tfinal count: ", count) end do print("testing changes in C-stack limit") assert(not debug.setcstacklimit(0)) -- limit too small assert(not debug.setcstacklimit(50000)) -- limit too large local co = coroutine.wrap (function () return debug.setcstacklimit(400) end) assert(co() == false) -- cannot change C stack inside coroutine local n local function foo () n = n + 1; foo () end local function check () n = 0 pcall(foo) return n end -- set limit to 400 assert(debug.setcstacklimit(400) == currentlimit) local lim400 = check() -- set a very low limit (given that there are already several active -- calls to arrive here) local lowlimit = 38 assert(debug.setcstacklimit(lowlimit) == 400) assert(check() < lowlimit - 30) assert(debug.setcstacklimit(600) == lowlimit) local lim600 = check() assert(lim600 == lim400 + 200) -- 'setcstacklimit' works inside protected calls. (The new stack -- limit is kept when 'pcall' returns.) assert(pcall(function () assert(debug.setcstacklimit(400) == 600) assert(check() <= lim400) end)) assert(check() == lim400) assert(debug.setcstacklimit(origlimit) == 400) -- restore original limit end print'OK'