LuaJIT FFI: pointer<->lightuserdata ?

[Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@...>]

Hi,

still in the assimilating phase of learning LuaJIT's FFI, and
daydreaming about how to call system functions (and ditching not only
Lua bindings but also several common C libraries in favor of plain Lua
code), a curious doubt is forming in my head:

the "don't use cdata as table keys" is very reasonable; but a common
idiom i've used before is to take a C pointer, make it into a
lightuserdata and use as a table key.  the suggested workaround is to
use tonumber(); why not cast into a lightuserdata?

in the FFI reference, the lightuserdata->(void *) conversion is
automatic; but i don't see how to do the converse.

am i missing some downside of a (void *)->lightuserdata conversion?

-- 
Javier