test proposal

[sonoro1234]

assert((function()local t = {}
return reflect.getmetatable(ffi.metatype("struct {}", t)) == t end)())

makes the program to exit without assert. (now corrected at PR #12)
I would comment this test which is always silently failing or perhaps:

local oldassert = assert
local assert = function(a,b)
	local source = debug.getinfo(2,'Sl')
	print(a,source.currentline,b)
	oldassert(a)--,"error in test")
end

in order to see test progress

[sonoro1234]

also failing in 64bits
assert((function()return reflect.typeof("int(__stdcall *)(int)").element_type.convention == "stdcall" end)())
and

assert((function()local pieces = {} local function print(s) pieces[#pieces + 1] = tostring(s) end 
if not ffi.abi "win" then return "Windows-only example" end
ffi.cdef "void* LoadLibraryA(const char*)"
print(reflect.typeof(ffi.C.LoadLibraryA).convention) --> cdecl
ffi.C.LoadLibraryA("kernel32")
print(reflect.typeof(ffi.C.LoadLibraryA).convention) --> stdcall
return table.concat(pieces, ", ") == "cdecl, stdcall" end)())

which could be perhaps moved to another test file (test_convention.lua)

[sonoro1234]

In order to test CTA_QUAL, this should be added:

assert((function() 
ffi.cdef[[typedef struct test{int a;}test;]]
return (reflect.typeof("const test").const == true)
end)())

which fails on current but is corrected in PR #12