Re: Using tolua to get function pointers

[Waldemar Celes <celes@...>]

> Something like this, in the .pkg file:
>
> $#define dummy_C_function(arg1) C_function(tolua_S, arg1)
>
> void dummy_C_function @ C_function(LUA_VALUE arg1);
>
> (With  Lua 5.0, lua_Object instead of LUA_VALUE also should work.)
>
> The macro ensures that the function is passed the lua state. This is pretty
> ugly, but as of yet, there does not seem to be any other way to do this.

The last tolua release is able to handle lua_State* parameters. So one
can bind the function directly:

void C_function(lua_State *L, lua_Object arg1);

when calling this function from Lua, we do not need to specify the first 
parameter
(tolua automatically passes the current state).

-- waldemar