Re: Modifying strings returned by luaL

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Subject: Re: Modifying strings returned by luaL_checkstring()?
From: Andrew Gierth <andrew@...>
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2019 13:02:55 +0100

>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> writes:

 Marc> Is it allowed to modify strings returned by lua_tolstring,
 Marc> luaL_checkstring etc.? (after casting to a char *).

Absolutely not.

 Marc> Or does that have any negative side effects?

It breaks everything.

-- 
Andrew.

References:
- Modifying strings returned by luaL_checkstring()?, Marc Balmer

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