Adding Base Types to Lua

["Andrew Teirney" <andrew@...>]

Hi there,

    This email relates to adding to the base types of the Lua language, the
target platform that i am soon to get lua working on is the m32c/80, a
16-bit microntroller. What i would like to do is have the ability to handle
several integral types of various sizes, 16-bit, 32-bit and then floating
point. 16-bit is the ideal size for most operations due to speed, but when
using signed numbers 32768 is rather limiting, thats when the 32-bit would
be used. Does any one have an idea on how this could be implemented, i would
much rather it be part of the base language rather than a user type or
whatever, i have considered adding another LUA_LONG_NUMBER type but i am
unaware of the implication to the compiler and so forth that there may be, i
am quite happy to write code and so forth, just unsure of how big a job it
would be.

Cheers,

    Andrew Teirney