Re: luaL_ref() on a string

[Duncan Cross <duncan.cross@...>]

2010/4/12 Andreas Falkenhahn <andreas@airsoftsoftwair.de>:
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> Hi,
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> when I use luaL_ref() on a string that is on top of the stack, and then obtain a pointer
> to this string. Is this pointer guaranteed to be valid until I call luaL_unref() or could
> the string be moved to an other memory location across function calls?
>
> Tks,
>
> Andreas
> --
> "Remember: It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice!"
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I believe that standard Lua does not move things like strings around
in memory, but it may not be safe to rely on that in any other
implementation (e.g. LuaJIT).

-Duncan