Re: Adding Base Types to Lua

[Asko Kauppi <asko.kauppi@...>]

I've been thinkimg of a similar situation with the 64-bit 'long long' 
values, and will probably implement them as userdata, sooner or later. 
Does anyone already have such a library available?!?

-ak


Andrew Teirney kirjoittaa keskiviikkona, 7. toukokuuta 2003, kello 
12:28:

> 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