luaj-core/src/main/java/org/luaj/vm2/lib/StringLib.java

@@ -640,6 +640,8 @@ public class StringLib extends TwoArgFunction {
 			int lastmatch = -1; /* end of last match */
 			LuaValue repl = args.arg(3);
 			int max_s = args.optint(4, srclen+1);
+			if (max_s < 0)
+				max_s = srclen+1;
 			final boolean anchor = p.length() > 0 && p.charAt(0) == '^';
 
 			Buffer lbuf = new Buffer(srclen);

luaj-test/src/test/resources/compatibility/stringlib.lua

@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ print( string.match( "abbaaababaabaaabaa", "b(a*)()b", 12 ) )
 
 print( string.byte("hi", -3) )
 
+print( string.gsub("ABC ABC ABC", "ABC", "DEF", -1) )
+print( string.gsub("ABC ABC ABC", "ABC", "DEF", 0) )
+print( string.gsub("ABC ABC ABC", "ABC", "DEF", 2) )
 print( string.gsub("ABC", "@(%x+)", function(s) return "|abcd" end) )
 print( string.gsub("@123", "@(%x+)", function(s) return "|abcd" end) )
 print( string.gsub("ABC@123", "@(%x+)", function(s) return "|abcd" end) )