Re: C Function with variable number of parameters

Hi Markus, 

I think perhaps the simplest way would be to register this particular
function using Lua functionality directly.  You could still use
luabind::object::from_stack within the function.

I.e. 

int dispatch( lua_State *L );

and

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#lua_register

Nigel


On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 15:51 +0200, Markus Klotzbuecher wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a (dispatching) C function (not an ANSI C varargs) which
> depending on the first parameter requires a variable number of
> additional parameters. I currently solve this by registering functions
> with arity 0 to 4 taking luabind::objects. What I would like to do is
> register only one function with one arg which then can inspect the
> stack using lua_gettop and call luabind::object::from_stack to get the
> remaining arguments. What prevents this however, is luabind checking
> for the exact number of parameters and complaining "No matching
> overloads found". Does anybody know how to solve this?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> Markus
> 
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