Re: Please help: do lua sources assume a 32-bit int?

[Jason Davies <jdd30@...>]

Bogdan Marinescu wrote:

> I'm trying to compile lua 5.0.2 for a CPU that has sizeof(int)==2,
> instead of 4. While trying to compile the lua core, I got the
> following warning:
>
> [Warning(ccom):lobject.c,line 62] this comparison is always false
> ===> if (x >= 0x00010000) {
> [Warning(ccom):lobject.c,line 63] this comparison is always false
> ===> if (x >= 0x01000000) return log_8[((x>>24) & 0xff) - 1]+24;
>  
In Lua 5.1 (work4) this seems to have been updated and should work with 
16-bit ints. Lua is written with portability in mind but I don't know if 
there are any other gotchas around.

Regards,
Jason