On 4/9/14 11:09 AM, Daniel Kolesa wrote: > Yes, a mapping table is always a possibility, I was hoping for some way > to do it without this though. Also, I don't think you really need the > tonumber() here. Indexing tables with cdata is fine here, as we want the > key to be the address, the problem with cdata table indexes is just when > doing something like, tbl[5LL] == tbl[5]. LuaJIT 2.0.3 -- Copyright (C) 2005-2014 Mike Pall. http://luajit.org/ JIT: ON CMOV SSE2 SSE3 SSE4.1 fold cse dce fwd dse narrow loop abc sink fuse > ffi = require('ffi') > p1 = ffi.new('char[1]') > i1 = ffi.cast('intptr_t', p1) > = i1 310296LL > i2 = ffi.cast('intptr_t', p1) > = i2 310296LL > = string.format('%p %p', i1, i2) 0x0004be20 0x0004c210 > They i1 and i2 have the same value, but different address.