Re: Suggestion: lua_popinteger and others

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 22:50, Rebel Neurofog <rebelneurofog@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Right now if you want to retrieve a field using the C API, it takes
>> three lines per field:
>> lua_getfield(L, index, "field name");
>> lua_Integer val = lua_tointeger(L, -1);
>> lua_pop(L, 1);
>
> static inline lua_Integer get_integer (lua_State *L, int idx, const char *field)
> {
>    lua_getfield(L, idx, field);
>    lua_Integer val = lua_tointeger(L, -1);
>    lua_pop(L, 1);
>    return val;
> }
>
> In modern compilers inlining avoids unnecessary data copying so this
> is at least optimal.
> Although inlining isn't ASNI C.
>

That's what I've done in my app. I was just proposing that such a
function should be part of the API.

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