Re: luajit push_string out of memory
- From: Sung Park <spark0820@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:35:47 -0700
Since I'm using string library on the lua side, this won't work for me, but
I can see this will come in very handy later on. Thanks for the
suggestion.
Regards,
Sung
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:20 PM, demetri <demetri.spanos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Also I would appreciate it if anybody can share any good suggestions on
>> pushing large size string across C++/luajit boundary. Thanks.
>>
>>
> If you're not planning on using string.* functions on it, I do this all
> the time using an ffi object:
>
> typedef struct {
> int num_bytes;
> char* payload;
> } CString;
>
> This avoids making a copy of the string (and interning it). Either
> instantiate such objects from ffi.new() on the lua side, or instantiate on
> the C side and pass a struct pointer as a lightuserdata (using ffi.cast()
> as appropriate).
>
> I have found this to solve all of my needs, but If others have better
> suggestions on best practices here I'd be curious to know as well :-)
>
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