RE: simple Lua alien question

["King, Mike" <MKing@...>]

>> Running the following commands causes an access violation when Sleep returns. What am
>> I doing wrong?  I'm using the latest version of Lua for Windows (v5.1.4-40).
>>
>> require "alien"
>> Sleep = alien.kernel32.Sleep
>> Sleep:types('void', 'int')
>> Sleep(1000)
>>
> Likely because you declare 'Sleep' as 'void(*)(int)', but Sleep
> actually takes a DWORD, which is usually typedef'd to 'double'. More
> information at MSDN:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686298.aspx

Version 0.4.1 of alien doesn't offer unsigned types.

> Also, I don't know if that "CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE" is supposed your
> signature or not, but I think it might be a tiny wee bit too long...

I have no control over it... sorry



















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