Package: lua5.3 Version: 5.3.3-1 Severity: important Based on a more complex script that was generating incorrect numerical results, I have created a fairly simple example lua script (which I will subsequently attach to this bug report) which demonstrates the bug.
In this script I initialize 9 different arrays of various sizes, and then calculate the numerical inverses of elements of two of those arrays. The inverses are not calculated properly (the result just prints out as 1.0) if 9 arrays are initialized, but if I remove any one of the array initializations that are not relevant to the inverse calculation, the correct inverse result is printed. For the (incorrect) nine-array case, the printout shows the array value that is inverted is correct so it is lua's ability to divide that gets clobbered by the intialization of 9 arrays in this example, and not the array value itself that is being inverted. This bug makes lua5.3 largely unusable for any complex task that involves arrays so I have set the Severity level to important. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lua5.3 depends on: ii libc6 2.27-3 ii libreadline7 7.0-5 lua5.3 recommends no packages. lua5.3 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
