Function luaV_concat

lua/lvm.c:324–356

void luaV_concat (lua_State *L, int total, int last) {
  do {
    StkId top = L->base + last + 1;
    int n = 2;  /* number of elements handled in this pass (at least 2) */
    if (!(ttisstring(top-2) || ttisnumber(top-2)) || !tostring(L, top-1)) {
      if (!call_binTM(L, top-2, top-1, top-2, TM_CONCAT))
        luaG_concaterror(L, top-2, top-1);
    } else if (tsvalue(top-1)->len == 0)  /* second op is empty? */
      (void)tostring(L, top - 2);  /* result is first op (as string) */
    else {
      /* at least two string values; get as many as possible */
      size_t tl = tsvalue(top-1)->len;
      char *buffer;
      int i;
      /* collect total length */
      for (n = 1; n < total && tostring(L, top-n-1); n++) {
        size_t l = tsvalue(top-n-1)->len;
        if (l >= MAX_SIZET - tl) luaG_runerror(L, "string length overflow");
        tl += l;
      }
      buffer = luaZ_openspace(L, &G(L)->buff, tl);
      tl = 0;
      for (i=n; i>0; i--) {  /* concat all strings */
        size_t l = tsvalue(top-i)->len;
        memcpy(buffer+tl, svalue(top-i), l);
        tl += l;
      }
      setsvalue2s(L, top-n, luaS_newlstr(L, buffer, tl));
    }
    total -= n-1;  /* got `n' strings to create 1 new */
    last -= n-1;
  } while (total > 1);  /* repeat until only 1 result left */
}


static void Arith (lua_State *L, StkId ra, const TValue *rb,