lua中关于取长度问题

/*
** Try to find a boundary in table `t'. A `boundary' is an integer index
** such that t[i] is non-nil and t[i+1] is nil (and 0 if t[1] is nil).
*/
int luaH_getn (Table *t) {
unsigned int j = t->sizearray;
if (j > 0 && ttisnil(&t->array[j - 1])) {
/* there is a boundary in the array part: (binary) search for it */
unsigned int i = 0;
while (j - i > 1) {
unsigned int m = (i+j)/2;
if (ttisnil(&t->array[m - 1])) j = m;
else i = m;
}
return i;
}
/* else must find a boundary in hash part */
else if (isdummy(t->node))  /* hash part is empty? */
return j;  /* that is easy... */
else return unbound_search(t, j);
}

static int unbound_search (Table *t, unsigned int j) {
unsigned int i = j;  /* i is zero or a present index */
j++;
/* find `i' and `j' such that i is present and j is not */
while (!ttisnil(luaH_getint(t, j))) {
i = j;
j *= 2;
if (j > cast(unsigned int, MAX_INT)) {  /* overflow? */
/* table was built with bad purposes: resort to linear search */
i = 1;
while (!ttisnil(luaH_getint(t, i))) i++;
return i - 1;
}
}
/* now do a binary search between them */
while (j - i > 1) {
unsigned int m = (i+j)/2;
if (ttisnil(luaH_getint(t, m))) j = m;
else i = m;
}
return i;
}