2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 25bc911..6bab5f3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ For Lua 5.1 additionally:
 * `lua_arith` (see [here][19])
 * `lua_compare`
 * `lua_len`, `lua_rawlen`, and `luaL_len`
+* `lua_pushstring` (return value)
 * `lua_copy`
 * `lua_pushglobaltable`
 * `luaL_testudata`
diff --git a/c-api/compat-5.3.h b/c-api/compat-5.3.h
index 0083eb4..67e1da6 100644
--- a/c-api/compat-5.3.h
+++ b/c-api/compat-5.3.h
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ COMPAT53_API void lua_copy (lua_State *L, int from, int to);
 #define lua_len COMPAT53_CONCAT(COMPAT53_PREFIX, _len)
 COMPAT53_API void lua_len (lua_State *L, int i);
 
+#define lua_pushstring(L, s) \
+  (lua_pushstring(L, (s)), lua_tostring(L, -1))
+
 #ifndef luaL_newlibtable
 #  define luaL_newlibtable(L, l) \
   (lua_createtable(L, 0, sizeof(l)/sizeof(*(l))-1))