Re: bug, -0 is not evaluated correctly.

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

How about a 'decisions.txt' file included in the distribution?  This 
would include short comments on things like this, to make clear 
something has been considered.  Potentially, also a short solution s.a. 
yours could be included.

The website is too heavy & 'far away' for this, such a document should 
accompany the sources themselves imho. Note that it would be 'deep 
reading', not necessary for any newcomer but might be interesting 
nonetheless.

-ak

6.1.2005 kello 17:37, Roberto Ierusalimschy kirjoitti:

 An easy way to support -0 is to avoid the optimization when the value 
is
> zero. I guess the fix would be simply the following:
>
> lcode.c:579:
> -   if (e->k == VK && ttisnumber(&fs->f->k[e->info]))
> +   if (e->k == VK && ttisnumber(&fs->f->k[e->info]) &&
> +                     nvalue(&fs->f->k[e->info]) != 0)
>
> (Untested code for Lua 5.0.2)
>
> The question is whether we really should care about those details...
>
> -- Roberto