Re: why does tolua clear the stack?

[Waldemar Celes <celes@...>]

the code below does not seem to be generated by tolua.
aren't you using another wrapper?

-- celes

At 12:57 26/11/2002 +0200, you wrote:

> Tolua-generated code seems to call 'lua_settop(0)' in between reading the
> arguments and pushing the return values. Why is this? Could someone knowing
> the Lua internals comment on whether this is good, bad, or does not matter?
> Examples in Lua manual (5.0) don't do such a thing.
>
> Thanks.
> - asko
>
>
> >static int
> >wrap_SDL_JoystickName(lua_State *L)
> >{
> >    char * _result;
> >    int  _arg0;
> >
> >{_arg0 = ( int )luaL_check_long(L, 1);}
> >       lua_settop(L, 0);
> >    _result = (char *)SDL_JoystickName(_arg0);
> >{LS_luaL_pushstringpointer(L, _result);}
> >       return 1;
> >}
>
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