[luatex] Accessing primitive registers

[Hans Hagen]

On 10/13/2015 4:30 PM, Joseph Wright wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Trying to use e.g. tex.dimen for accessing primitives seems to lead to
> very odd errors:
>
>    \directlua{print(tex.dimen["pagewidth"])}
>
>      ! LuaTeX error [\directlua]:1: incorrect index value -11 for
>      tex.getdimen()
>      stack traceback:
> 	    [C]: in function '__index'
>
> I'm assuming this is a bug?

i'll have a look at it (normally it indicates a non defined register)

Hans

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