Re: Can heavy userdata move? (5alpha)

[Björn De Meyer <bjorn.demeyer@...>]

"Adam D. Moss" wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I was wondering... once a heavy user data is created with
> lua_newuserdata(), is it guaranteed to stay at that same returned
> address until it is finally destroyed?  

Yes. Lua uses a non-copying, non-moving mark and sweep garbage 
collector. Your pointers are safe. As for the future, I'll 
leave that up to the makers of Lua.

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Björn De Meyer 
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