Re: Delay garbage collection of some data possible? ("validate" data for C?)

[Xmilia Hermit <xmilia.hermit@...>]

> You could hold a reference to this value in the registry index:
> luaL_ref(current_state, LUA_REGISTRYINDEX);
> In this way, there will always ne a reference to ut until you manaully 
> remove the entry from the registry, thus the Garbage Collector won't 
> collect it

Holding a reference in the registry will asure that you can access the 
string again, however, the const char* pointers returned from most Lua 
API calls will be invalid after the function returns as the manual 
states in https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#4.1.3.

Regards,
Xmilia