On Nov 17, 3:36pm, lourival.n...@gmail.com (Lourival Vieira Neto) wrote: -- Subject: Re: [patch] changing lua_Number to int64_t
| > 1. Lua 5.3 will have 64 bit integer support as standard, which will | > make interop and reuse between kernel and userspace code much easier, | > iff we use int64_t | | If they are using int64_t for integers, I think it is a good reason to us to | stick to int64_t. This is not relevant. The numeric type will still be double, so forget about compatibility between kernel and userland. There is no need for the interpreter to use a fixed width type, but rather it is convenient to use the largest numeric type the machine can represent. christos
