collectgarbage ignores its option: "count" returns no value #546

• GopherLua is a Lua5.1 implementation. You should be familiar with Lua programming language. Have you read Lua 5.1 reference manual carefully?
• GopherLua is a Lua5.1 implementation. In Lua, to keep it simple, it is more important to remove functionalities rather than to add functionalities unlike other languages . If you are going to introduce some new cool functionalities into the GopherLua code base and the functionalities can be implemented by existing APIs, It should be implemented as a library.

1. What version of GopherLua are you using? : master (75f4976) and v1.1.1
2. What version of Go are you using? : 1.26.2
3. What operating system and processor architecture are you using? : darwin/arm64
4. What did you do? :

print(type(collectgarbage("count")), select("#", collectgarbage("count")))
print(collectgarbage("setpause", 150))

5. What did you expect to see? : Lua 5.1.5:

number	1
200

6. What did you see instead? :

bad argument #1 to type (value expected)

baseCollectGarbage always runs runtime.GC() and returns no value, whatever the option. collectgarbage("count") is the usual way scripts report their memory (for example collectgarbage("count") * 1024), and it fails. Invalid options are not reported either.