Re: Suggestion: lua_popinteger and others

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Rebel Neurofog once stated:
> 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.

  C89.  C99 allows inlining of functions.  Even though I use Lua, the C code
I write is C99.  Works just fine.

  -spc