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- Subject: Re: luaL_Buffer Destruction
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:31:19 -0200
> If you initialize a luaL_Buffer object with luaL_buffinit(), must you always
> call luaL_pushresult(), or can you abandon it altogether? From reading the
> Lua 5.2 source code in lauxlib.c it looks like it's okay to abandon it, but
> I was wondering if this is reliable behavior or something that could change
> in the future.
It is reliable. Otherwise it would be almost unusable, because most
operations to create the strings to be added to the buffer may raise a
memory error.
-- Roberto
