Right, but p1's address stays the same - what I meant is you could do reg[ptr] = val and return reg[ptr] directly. 2014-04-09 10:14 GMT+01:00 Richard Hundt <richardhundt@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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. > >