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67 <span style="color: #0000c0;">LuaJIT&nbsp;2.0</span> is the current
68 <span style="color: #0000c0;">stable branch</span>. This branch is in
69 feature-freeze &mdash; new features will only be added to LuaJIT&nbsp;2.1.
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72 <h2>Current Status</h2>
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74 LuaJIT ought to run all Lua&nbsp;5.1-compatible source code just fine.
75 It's considered a serious bug if the VM crashes or produces unexpected
76 results &mdash; please report this.
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79 Known incompatibilities and issues in LuaJIT&nbsp;2.0:
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83 There are some differences in <b>implementation-defined</b> behavior.
84 These either have a good reason, are arbitrary design choices
85 or are due to quirks in the VM. The latter cases may get fixed if a
86 demonstrable need is shown.
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89 The Lua <b>debug API</b> is missing a couple of features (return
90 hooks for non-Lua functions) and shows slightly different behavior
91 in LuaJIT (no per-coroutine hooks, no tail call counting).
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94 Some checks are missing in the JIT-compiled code for obscure situations
95 with <b>open upvalues aliasing</b> one of the SSA slots later on (or
96 vice versa). Bonus points, if you can find a real world test case for
97 this.
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100 Currently some <b>out-of-memory</b> errors from <b>on-trace code</b> are not
101 handled correctly. The error may fall through an on-trace
102 <tt>pcall</tt> or it may be passed on to the function set with
103 <tt>lua_atpanic</tt> on x64. This issue will be fixed with the new
104 garbage collector.
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