Short strings can be external, too

That complicates a little object equality (and therefore table access
for long strings), but the old behavior was somewhat weird. (Short
strings, a concept otherwise absent from the manual, could not be
external.)

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/loadlib.c b/loadlib.c
index 2cd95ca3..8d2e68e2 100644
--- a/loadlib.c
+++ b/loadlib.c
@@ -345,8 +345,8 @@ static void *freelib (void *ud, void *ptr, size_t osize, size_t nsize) {
 ** Create a library string that, when deallocated, will unload 'plib'
 */
 static void createlibstr (lua_State *L, void *plib) {
-  static const char dummy[] =  /* common long body for all library strings */
-    "01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789";
+  /* common content for all library strings */
+  static const char dummy[] = "01234567890";
   lua_pushexternalstring(L, dummy, sizeof(dummy) - 1, freelib, plib);
 }