Re: Incorrect behaviour between tables in luajit and lua

  • From: Eduardo Barthel <edub4rt@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 18:41:41 -0200

I see that unpack uses the length operator again, but shouldn't luajit
behave like lua in such cases?

2014-10-20 18:34 GMT-02:00 Eduardo Barthel <edub4rt@xxxxxxxxx>:

> I see, but now look this case, another different behaviour
>
> bart@archrox:~ $ lua
> Lua 5.2.3  Copyright (C) 1994-2013 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> > a = {1,nil,3}
> > pcall(print, unpack(a))
> 1 nil 3
>
> bart@archrox:~ $ luajit
> LuaJIT 2.0.3 -- Copyright (C) 2005-2014 Mike Pall. http://luajit.org/
> JIT: ON CMOV SSE2 SSE3 SSE4.1 fold cse dce fwd dse narrow loop abc sink
> fuse
> > a = {1,nil,3}
> > pcall(print, unpack(a))
> 1
>
>
> 2014-10-20 18:28 GMT-02:00 Stefano <phd.st.p@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> And I was going to reply as well....
>>
>> On 20 October 2014 22:26, Coda Highland <chighland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > This isn't a bug at all. You're invoking undefined behavior -- # is
>> > only well-defined for sequences, and a sequence is defined as not
>> > containing embedded nils.
>> >
>> > /s/ Adam
>> >
>> > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Eduardo Barthel <edub4rt@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> >> While using LuaJIT in my apps I found this bug while declaring a new
>> table
>> >> with "nil" value in the middle, read the following examples, while in
>> Lua
>> >> the output is 3 in LuajIT is 1.
>> >>
>> >> Lua 5.2.3  Copyright (C) 1994-2013 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
>> >>> a = {1,nil,2}
>> >>> print(#a)
>> >> 3
>> >>
>> >> bart@archrox:~ $ lua5.1
>> >> Lua 5.1.5  Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
>> >>> a = {1,nil,2}
>> >>> print(#a)
>> >> 3
>> >>
>> >> bart@archrox:~ $ luajit
>> >> LuaJIT 2.0.3 -- Copyright (C) 2005-2014 Mike Pall. http://luajit.org/
>> >> JIT: ON CMOV SSE2 SSE3 SSE4.1 fold cse dce fwd dse narrow loop abc
>> sink fuse
>> >>> a = {1,nil,2}
>> >>> print(#a)
>> >> 1
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
>

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