Re: Maximum alignment question

["Alex Davies" <alex.mania@...>]

Bogdan Marinescu wrote:
> Thank you, I understood that. The part that I don't understand is why
> does the string have to be fully aligned.

> From the reference manual "lua_tolstring returns a fully aligned pointer to 
a string inside the Lua state.".

I imagine the reason this is guaranteed is so that strings can contain 
binary data - structs etc.  Useful when looking up cached values in tables 
for example, - would also allow specialised high speed string functions to 
be written which both know the length of the string, and that it's aligned.

- Alex