Fails with LuaJIT2 on AArch64
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Description
Noticed while trying to build AwesomeWM: lgi does not seem to work with LuaJIT on AARCH64.
In particular, with LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3 (the only version packaged in Gentoo), I get the following error running the gtkhello.lua example.
jakob@Lambda ~/lgi/samples $ luajit-2.1.0-beta3 gtkhello.lua
luajit-2.1.0-beta3: bad light userdata pointer
stack traceback:
[C]: at 0xffff94d66ed4
[C]: in function 'require'
/usr/share/lua/5.1/lgi/core.lua:14: in main chunk
[C]: in function 'require'
/usr/share/lua/5.1/lgi/init.lua:19: in main chunk
[C]: at 0xffff9502ff80
[C]: in function 'require'
gtkhello.lua:9: in main chunk
[C]: at 0xaaaab5602620
This may be relevant: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/7879
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Start by reproducing the failure from the gtkhello.lua example with LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3 on AArch64. Use the traceback to inspect lgi/core.lua and lgi/init.lua, and compare the reported behavior with the linked Neovim issue. Done means the example loads lgi successfully on the affected platform.
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