Re: Overriding debug.traceback
- From: Paul K <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:31:40 -0700
> What are the possibilities for the LuaJIT interpreter to behave like the Lua
> one when generating stack traces? I mean, to pick up the function in
> debug.traceback dynamically.
I'm using this in Mobdebug to report errors remotely, so would be
interested in this working as well.
Paul.
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Ignacio Burgueño <iburgueno@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi. I'm the author of StackTracePlus, a library to "enhance" stack traces
> with additional information.
> In my scripts, I usually just override debug.traceback with a custom
> function. Works fine with Lua.
>
> Then, I got this issue reported today, saying that the technique is not
> working with LuaJIT:
> https://github.com/ignacio/StackTracePlus/issues/6
>
> Checking the source, I found out that the interpreter does not use the
> function at debug.traceback, so whatever you put there won't be picked up.
>
> What are the possibilities for the LuaJIT interpreter to behave like the Lua
> one when generating stack traces? I mean, to pick up the function in
> debug.traceback dynamically.
>
> Regards,
> Ignacio
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