Print stacktrace from C code with embedded lua

Question

If I understand this correctly, Lua by default will call the debug library \"debug.traceback\" when an error occurs.

However, when embedding Lua into C code like don

Answer 1

Working off Nicol’s answer above here is a working example:

static int traceback(lua_State *L) {
    lua_getfield(L, LUA_GLOBALSINDEX, "debug");
    lua_getfield(L, -1, "traceback");
    lua_pushvalue(L, 1);
    lua_pushinteger(L, 2);
    lua_call(L, 2, 1);
    fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", lua_tostring(L, -1));
    return 1;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    lua_State *L = lua_open();
    luaL_openlibs(L);    
    lua_pushcfunction(L, traceback);
    int rv = luaL_loadfile(L, "src/main.lua");
    if (rv) {
        fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", lua_tostring(L, -1));
        return rv;
    } else {
        return lua_pcall(L, 0, 0, lua_gettop(L) - 1);
    }
}