lua_rawget / lua_rawset is not catched by lua_pcall

[hyee]

With below function

static void test(lua_State *L) {
    lua_pushnil(L); //simulate an exception where a table is expected here
    lua_pushstring(L,"abcd");
    lua_rawget(L,-2);
}

If call this function with lua_pcall, the program directly crashes. And if change lua_rawget as lua_gettable, the program correctly catches the error attempt to index a nil value. The same issue happens on lua_rawset.

My OS is Win10 and LuaJIT is up to date, is this behaviour expected? Thanks.

[MikePall]

First, the behavior is the same with Lua, so the question does not belong here.

The Lua/C API is a low-level API. It assumes certain arguments on the stack to be of the correct type. You can enable API checks in the Makefile to catch (some) of this API misuse in your programs.

[hyee]

Noted with thanks, I didn't realize -DLUA_USE_APICHECK can be used for debug.