Re: Size of full userdata

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

>  I cannot find a formal method to determine the size of a full userdata
>memory block.

We're planning to add this to Lua 5.1.

>I have found by looking at the lua source that I can cast the
>value returned by lua_touserdata to an int pointer, subtract one from it,
>and dereference it to get the size.  Is there a better way?

You can always store the size in the block itself.
--lhf