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Panic on attempt to index a string value #524
Description
Please answer the following before submitting your issue:
- What version of GopherLua are you using? : ccacf66
- What version of Go are you using? : 1.23.6
- What operating system and processor architecture are you using? : Ubuntu 24.04 amd64
- What did you do? : See below
- What did you expect to see? : See below
- What did you see instead? : See below
The Lua source code below
debug.setmetatable('string', {})
do ('Lua').key = 1 end;triggers a panic in GopherLua:
$ /home/sergeyb/sources/go/bin/glua -e "
debug.setmetatable('string', {})
do ('Lua').key = 1 end;
"
runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
stack traceback:
<string>:3: in main chunk
[G]: ?The same snippet executed by Lua 5.1 reports an error "attempt to index a string value":
$ lua5.1 -e "
debug.setmetatable('string', {})
do ('Lua').key = 1 end;
"
lua5.1: (command line):3: attempt to index a string value
stack traceback:
(command line):3: in main chunk
[C]: ?
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