Re: Pushing a UserData pointer?

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Mark Hamburg wrote:
> I implemented something essentially like lua_pushuserdata a while ago. I
> dropped it after a while because it carries with it the risk of corrupting
> the Lua state if the object has been collected or isn't really a userdata.

Right, which is why I suggested that userdata be made into an opaque 
pointer. That at least makes a programmer using good practice less 
likely to do harm. Using this had a phenomenal effect on the performance 
of my system, which I why I think it is an important tool for Lua-C 
interfacing...

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