Re: Lua garbage collection
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- Subject: Re: Lua garbage collection
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: 1997年4月14日 12:19:18 -0300
> I was disappointed that the Lua SP&E paper didn't say much about Lua's
> garbage collection. I would like to have my C code allocate objects
> of type userdata that get managed by Lua's garbage collector, but from
> the documentation I can't figure out how to do that. Is it possible?
Not now. Userdatas (void *) are considered values, like numbers, so they are
not allocated and therefore not collected. This will change in the next
version (3.0; an alpha version is coming very soon). Userdata will handle
any binary data, not only pointers. They will be objects, not values, and
therefore will be collected (and there will be a "fallback" to signal this).
-- Roberto