Re: Accessing ctype of FFI cdata from the Lua C API
- From: Mike Pall <mike-1301@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:30:32 +0100
Simon Cooke wrote:
> Now to make this type-safe I can check the corresponding ctype number
> for the cdata [2] by essentially invoking 'tonumber(ffi.typeof(c))'
> via the C API, but is there an easier/quicker/undocumented way to get
> this information directly?
Nope. The FFI and the classic Lua/C API don't mix.
But I wonder why you're worrying about type-safety when this is
only for the purpose of migration, anyway?
--Mike
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