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authorRoberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br>1996-02-12 15:32:09 -0300
committerRoberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br>1996-02-12 15:32:09 -0300
commitafaa98a666acd5f596b50f56bb288815838c096e (patch)
tree598f2139de92947f1b29088bb40544e9c94bbb62 /manual.tex
parent73be918285f7e2eb0acc02d73effa6a95a8ab08c (diff)
downloadlua-github-afaa98a666acd5f596b50f56bb288815838c096e.tar.gz
no more "lua_pushliteral".
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-% $Id: manual.tex,v 1.8 1996/02/09 17:21:27 roberto Exp roberto $
+% $Id: manual.tex,v 1.9 1996/02/09 19:02:30 roberto Exp roberto $
\documentstyle[A4,11pt,bnf]{article}
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Waldemar Celes Filho
Departamento de Inform\'atica --- PUC-Rio
}
-\date{\small \verb$Date: 1996/02/09 17:21:27 $}
+\date{\small \verb$Date: 1996/02/09 19:02:30 $}
\maketitle
@@ -836,13 +836,12 @@ otherwise, the function returns 0 (the null pointer).
The reverse process, that is, passing a specific C value to Lua,
is done by using the following functions:
-\Deffunc{lua_pushnumber}\Deffunc{lua_pushstring}\Deffunc{lua_pushliteral}
+\Deffunc{lua_pushnumber}\Deffunc{lua_pushstring}
\Deffunc{lua_pushcfunction}\Deffunc{lua_pushusertag}
\Deffunc{lua_pushuserdata}
\begin{verbatim}
void lua_pushnumber (double n);
void lua_pushstring (char *s);
-void lua_pushliteral (char *s);
void lua_pushcfunction (lua_CFunction f);
void lua_pushusertag (void *u, int tag);
\end{verbatim}
@@ -855,12 +854,6 @@ convert it to a correspondent \verb'lua_Object',
and leave the result on the top of the Lua stack,
where it can be assigned to a Lua variable,
passed as paramenter to a Lua function, etc (see below). \label{pushing}
-\verb'lua_pushliteral' is like \verb'lua_pushstring',
-but also puts the string in the Lua literal table and merges duplications.
-This avoids the string to be garbage collected,
-and therefore has a better overall performance.
-As a rule, when the string to be pushed is a literal,
-\verb'lua_pushliteral' should be used.
User data can have different tags,
whose semantics are defined by the host program.