Re: How to make ROMable Lua data

["Juris Kalnins" <juris@...>]

> Sorry, but I don't understand how setting a metatable for the  
> lightuserdata type is equivalent to my patch.

Sorry, I wasn't very clear on that. I meant only the part of your patch that
implements light tables and functions.

set "__call" to something like this (sorry, this is not an actual code, i'm
just making it up here from memory):

int lightCall(lua_State *L) {
   CFunction *p = lua_topointer(L, 1);
   if (!ptr_in_code_segment(p)) return luaL_error(L, "not a function");
   lua_call(L, lua_gettop(L) - 1, LUA_MULTRET);
   return lua_gettop(L);
}

Now any CFunction pointer will be callable if pushed as lightuserdata.
Make something similar that does __len and __index for luaL_Reg pointers.
This way lightuserdata can act both as function and as table.

Most of what your patch does, and what cannot be accomplished by a
metatable, is initializing global environment so libraries do not
create lots of tables in RAM.

--j<