else
-- FIXME: This is completely wrong here. Fix this;
-- we need to figure out what to send if we don't know our
- -- predecessor yet
+ -- predecessor yet (this DOES happen and this means that task.answer
+ -- is initialised with nil and when task.answer is accessed (not here), it will
+ -- break in Lua 5.3 (because it is nil).
simgrid.critical("Don't know my predecessor yet!")
my_node.predecessor = remote_get_predecessor(my_node.fingers[1])
task.answer = my_node.predecessor
