Justin Cormack wrote:
As Mike said you need a type name (string) a ctype or an object of the type.
So a Lua table can store either of these. An ffi object can only store the
third. But it has to be allocated. You could create a C struct with a single
field of the right type (not an array) and pass this to create the array if
you want to avoid Lua tables.
For what it's worth, this is why I suggested letting ffi objects hold proper
Lua references. William could then keep a reference to the ctype. Nice and
straightforward.
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Joshua
