Re: Getting the address of Lua variables in C

[Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@...>]

On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 15:48, Jose Marin wrote:
> It's possible to get the address of Lua variable to be
> used in C?
> int *p_time;
> p_time = (int*)LuaGetVarAddress("time");
> and, for every game frame:
> *p_time = GetTime();

Yuck

> It's that possible?

It would rely on the lua object never changing its address (which while
I think it is true under the current GC scheme, isn't necessarily true
overall) and would also require the system to implement a write-barrier
because of hashing requirements...

It makes more sense for you to create a C function which when called
gets the time, and has a frame-by-frame barrier so that it only calls
the expensive GetTime() call once per frame (assuming that it is really
that expensive after all)

D.

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