On 10/3/2015 3:06 AM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
On 2015-10-02 at 17:11:35 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> going 64 bit internally in tex would mean a lot of checking and
> patching of code
Does it really matter whether a user specifies a number which is too
large in his TeX input file or whether such a number comes from Lua?
hard to say but sometimes tex packs data together so casts happen (many
internals are so called halfwords)
(also tex's maxdimen etc checks kick in)
Hans
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