Re: Lua 5 bug

["D Burgess" <db@...>]

>  16 + sizeof(void *)*4
Sounds good to me. Although Healthy paranoia would make it
  (16 + sizeof(void *))*4

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>> I am using an OS that generates strings up to 60 bytes in length
>> for the sprintf %p (i.e. the pointer presentation)
>> 
>> Lua5 sprintf points into a buffer of 64 bytes, not big enough.
>
>What about changing those sizes to the following expression?
>
>  16 + sizeof(void *)*4
>
>16 bytes would be for the fixed part; for `p', we would have 4 bytes of
>representation for each real byte.
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>In "regular" Lua, that would be 48. In your machine, that would be 80.
>
>-- Roberto