RE: more gc gotchas
- From: William Adams <william_a_adams@xxxxxxx>
- To: <luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 21:53:14 +0000
because I'm not always casting to a const char *.
If it's any easier to imagine the situation, then:
somefunc(ffi.cast("somestruct *", something))
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> Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 23:25:57 +0200
> From: mike-1205@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: more gc gotchas
>
> William Adams wrote:
> > I have plenty of code that looks something like this:
> >
> > somefunc(ffi.cast("const char *", lstring))
>
> Why do you bother to use a cast at all? The conversion from Lua
> strings to const char * is automatic:
>
> somefunc(lstring)
>
> --Mike
>
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