Re: using void* in LuaJIT2 FFI

[Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@...>]

Mike Pall, 12.02.2011 17:25:
> Stefan Behnel wrote:
> >  From the current documentation at
> >
> > http://luajit.org/ext_ffi.html
> >
> > which is more tutorial style than a reference, I cannot see how such
> > a runtime cast would be supported.
>
> Quoting, emphasis mine:
>
>    "This page gives a short introduction to the usage of the FFI
>    library. PLEASE USE THE FFI SUB-TOPICS IN THE NAVIGATION BAR TO
>    LEARN MORE."
>
> Please tell me what's unclear about this sentence.

Well, the content of that sentence isn't the problem. Its placement is.

Maybe it would help if the "sub-topics" actually *were* sub-topics, i.e. if 
there was a topic "FFI", instead of several more or less unrelated topics 
at the same level.

But I must admit that I didn't even look at the menu. A page titled "FFI 
library" without any links in the text feels like a stand-alone page, not 
so much as an intro to a larger part of a web site. You may want to add 
some visible links to the relevant pages, rather than hiding a textual 
reference in a tiny paragraph that's easy to miss. That's not how the web 
works.

I'll give it a look. Thanks a lot for the pointers so far.

Stefan