Re: What's the purpose of the define "LUA_CORE"

[liam mail <liam.list@...>]

On 30 September 2012 16:32, liam mail <liam.list@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 30 September 2012 15:34, Seppl Vorderhörer
> <Seppl.Vorderhoerer@t-online.de> wrote:
>> LUA_CORE
> This leads for me to two questions:
> 1.) Can this switch not be also lead to problems in "normal" C code
> not poking around in internals of Lua?
> Not that I am aware of.
> 2.) Why is this switch necessary at all? Why would I want code to
> "know" that it's part of the core and behave differently?
> LUA_CORE as you have seen defines other internally used macros if it
> is defined and this is not what is wanted when a user simply includes
> the public API headers.
>
>> Fixing this behaviour is easy: Either compiling with LUA_CORE
> This is not surprising as you are using internal details.
>
> Liam

Here is a similar request for information earlier in the year.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/89361/

Liam