RE: [ANNOUNCE] Lua 5.0 (alpha) now available

[Jay Carlson <nop@...>]

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:

> >but if I
> >find areas of Lua that I and other embedded systems programmers might
> >question, I'll either offer patches or suggestions to the Lua authors
> >for creating a more efficient core.
>
> Please do!

How about exposing a pair of "push const string" functions?

Semantics: the caller guarantees that the string argument will not
change or be deallocated for the lifetime of the Lua state.

Motivation: I've got this ROM here.  (Well, actually it's a read-only
demand-loaded text segment, but pretend it's a ROM.)  strdup'ing
string literals and other const strings increases the size of the
heap for no particularly good reason.

Jay