Crashes with table.sort

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I always thought it was normal that eso crashes if I mess up my sort function in some bad way, but now that haggen had a similar problem I went to the trouble of actually reading the Lua source code and saw that it should not happen that way.

local myTable = {1,2,3,4}
table.sort(myTable, function(a, b)
   return true
end)

This should throw a Lua error according to the source code of auxsort, but instead it becomes an infinite loop and hangs the process until it is killed.

I suspect it has to do with this piece here:

   /* repeat ++i until a[i] >= P */
      while (lua_rawgeti(L, 1, ++i), sort_comp(L, -1, -2)) {
        if (i>u) luaL_error(L, "invalid order function for sorting");
        lua_pop(L, 1);  /* remove a[i] */
      }

For some reason luaL_error does not get fired or simply does not stop code execution.