Re: Adding an hex type in lua

[David Jones <drj@...>]

On 21 Nov 2006, at 21:24, Mildred wrote:

> Le mar 21/11/2006 à 18:00 Grellier, Thierry à écrit:
> > I need to manipulate addresses. These addresses would be happy with
> > specific operators, namely bitwise operators. Currently the address I
> > manipulate are 32 bits, but I may imagine they become 64bits in
> > future.
>
> Why not using light userdata, maybe redefining the metatable  
> associated
> with all light userdata. As far as I know, light userdata are just
> void* pointers.

I think from what he's said in previous posts that the addresses  
being manipulated are not addresses in the address space of the C  
process running Lua.  They're addresses that appear on a memory bus  
whilst running a simulation of a piece of hardware.

drj