Re: A way to associate a Lua value with a FFI pointer?
- From: Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: LuaJIT <luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 08:23:34 -0500
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 4:51 AM, Daniel Kolesa <quaker66@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, I know this. But that's not relevant in my case and the cases you're
> showing do not happen in my particular situation :)
as soon as you pass one of these pointers through a C function, or via
some kind of non-Lua-value channel, you'll get a different instance of
"the same" pointer, with a different cdata address and resolving to a
different hash slot.
it's safer to cast it to some Lua value.
--
Javier
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