Re: Strange userdata metatable behavior in C API
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- Subject: Re: Strange userdata metatable behavior in C API
- From: Peter Odding <xolox@...>
- Date: 2007年6月03日 10:53:12 +0200
dormando wrote:
dormando wrote:
Hey,
I've been fighting with a nasty bug in the C API for a
soon-to-be-GPL'ed project o' mine... for several hours, and I'm wholly
stuck. The problem is pretty easy to illustrate:
As usual, a few hours later I'll make a dick of myself.
The issue is that I'm using a lightuserdata instead of a full userdata.
Setting up a **pointer and shoveling that inside the full userdata has
completely ameliorated the weirdness.
I do have one real question however; I have the 2nd ed PiL book, the 5.1
ref man, and the online manual. All of which devote a single sentence
saying that lightuserdata does not have a metatable. However, this
appears to not be the case :P It has a single metatable for all types
(like numbers, strings, etc). So when I set another metatable for the
second lightuserdata object, it overwrote it globally.
Am I reading the docs wrong and this is intended behavior?
Thanks,
-Dormando
You made me curious so I checked the manual. Here's the entry for
lua_pushlightuserdata (*emphasis* mine):
--------------------
void lua_pushlightuserdata (lua_State *L, void *p);
Pushes a light userdata onto the stack.
Userdata represent C values in Lua. A light userdata represents a pointer. It is
a value (like a number): you do not create it, *it has no individual metatable*,
and it is not collected (as it was never created). A light userdata is equal to
"any" light userdata with the same C address.
--------------------
So this is in fact documented, though I must admit I wasn't aware of it either.
- Peter Odding