Re: Lua 5.3.1: file:seek() and files larger than 2 GB

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 04.10.2015 um 18:13 schröbte Paul K:
> Hi Philipp,

Hi!

> I mean that when I take Lua 5.3.1 (*without* the fix above), compile
> it with mingw as 32bit app on Windows 64bit and run on a file larger
> than 2G, I get
>
> nil    "Invalid argument"    22
>
> *With* the fix I get the correct result. Do you get a different result
> from vanilla Lua 5.3.1?

Yes, I get a -1 return value from ftell instead when using MinGW. I know 
the "Invalid argument" error only from Lua (5.1) compiled with Visual C.

> > Maybe your lua.exe is picking up the wrong DLL?!
>
> Unlikely ;). I double checked.
>
> Paul.

Philipp