lua-5.0: userdata confusion

[Andrzej Borsuk <andrzej.borsuk@...>]

Hello,
This is my first post to lua-l. Sorry about my english, but its not my 
native language..

I have begun porting my little (unfinished) applications from lua-4.0 to 
lua-5.0, but I have found big problem with userdata incompatibility 
between versions 4 and 5.

Under lua-4.0 I have make heavy usage of tagged userdata. Almost any 
data created by my applications was stored in lua and then handled by 
lua code.
Under lua-5 there is no lua_pushusertag, so I can not store pointers to 
structures created by  external libraries (postgresql, xlib, gtk etc).

   * lua_newuserdata() is not what I need, because I already have
     allocated memory...
   * lua_pushlightuserdata() have no sense for me, because I need to
     know something about stored pointer and realy need use garbage
     collector..
   * I have found lua_boxpointer() macro but it has no use for me (just
     imagine what will happen when you use boxpointer twice for the
     same data pointer -- it can happen when you use callbacks -- now
     try to use garbagecollector).  

Any advice?
I really have no idea how to solve this problem, Help!

Andrzej Borsuk

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