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From: =?UTF-8?q?Beno=C3=AEt=20Burnichon?= <benoit.burnichon@airtag.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:20:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] GC may get stuck during parsing and avoids proper resizing
 of the string table, making its lists grow too much and
 degrading performance.
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Comes from http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.1.4-6

 reported by Sean Conner on 10 Nov 2009.


Signed-off-by: Benoît Burnichon <benoit.burnichon@airtag.com>
---
 src/llex.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/llex.c b/src/llex.c
index 6dc3193..92d6575 100644
--- a/src/llex.c
+++ b/src/llex.c
@@ -118,8 +118,10 @@ TString *luaX_newstring (LexState *ls, const char *str, size_t l) {
   lua_State *L = ls->L;
   TString *ts = luaS_newlstr(L, str, l);
   TValue *o = luaH_setstr(L, ls->fs->h, ts);  /* entry for `str' */
-  if (ttisnil(o))
+  if (ttisnil(o)) {
     setbvalue(o, 1);  /* make sure `str' will not be collected */
+    luaC_checkGC(L);
+  }
   return ts;
 }