Custom Value instead of ChunkName?

[Ando Sonenblick <ando@...>]

Gang,

This doesn't seem possible from what I glean (without modifying lua 
itself).  But I thought I'd ask.  When I load or call lua code I'm 
passing a chunkName for debug/error output.

However, I've got many, many, many lua scripts, each with 256 byte 
string object in it for this situtaion.   99% of the time, these 
strings just sit there taking up gobs of memory as most scripts load 
and run without error.    Very inefficient memory usage.

So instead of passing a string, I'd like to somehow pass my C++ object 
(just some 32 bit value as far as lua is concerned) that, with the 
Debug API's I can then retrieve.  This way, I could not allocate and 
define the string until there is an actual problem....

Any thoughts?

thx,
ando

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Ando Sonenblick
SpriTec Software
www.spritec.com