Re: How reliable is lua_topointer() ?

[Lawrie Nichols <lawrien@...>]

Hi Patrick

On 12/08/09 02:09, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> Light Userdata and Numbers are both considered strong references in
> any weak table.
You're absolutely right....I meant it weak-valued table (I should read 
my posts before hitting the send button...).

> Also, passing a pointer to an integer on the stack is
> just as simple in my opinion as passing a pointer returned from
> lua_topointer.
>    
Agreed. However, in my case I'll be getting a pointer (to my allocated 
UD) coming back from a third-party library. If I can use this pointer as 
the index, then that's going to be easiest for me at this stage.

Thanks for the help,

Lawrie