Re: Pass int64

James Porter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.lua.bind.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Niki Bowe wrote:
> Done correctly that is the best solution. Itll allow you to do 
> arithmetic on 64 bit integers in lua.
> Though there is a bit more to it than that.
> lua_Number will need to be able to hold int64 values without loss.
> which means youll need to either go with int64 as lua_Number (ie integer 
> only lua)
> or long double as lua_Number (non portable. no guarantee it can 
> represent all 64 bit ints.

Are you sure about this? Because that would imply that Lua 5.1 doesn't 
work properly when compiled for a 64-bit platform since, by default, 
LUA_INTEGER is #defined to ptrdiff_t. That seems like something the Lua 
developers would have considered, but maybe not...

- Jim


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