Re: parse hex numerals [PATCH]

[LEGO <luis.ontanon@...>]

I'm very sorry but I think I've sent in an old version of the patch.

The one I got in was before testing it using float and as a matter of
fact it does not increase the exponential when the 24th bit of the
mantissa is set.

Sorry.


On 2/9/06, LEGO <luis.ontanon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> FYC
>
> the following patch against lua-5.1-rc3 allows the lexer to recognize
> hexadecimal numerals in the form 0xa1234
>
> The one thing I realy have problems with lua is the lack of hex numerals.
>
> I've been working into embeding lua to ethereal, not being able to use
> hex numerals makes some things very hard to do, try expressing an IP
> mask (e.g. 255.255.255.0) as a decimal (4294967040) instead of hex
> (0xffffff00) and you will understand what I intend.
>
> I would love not to have to write a preprocessor that does it. So I
> decided to try to have this included into lua-5.1 before I get into
> writing a preprocessor.
>
> Thanks for your consideration.
>
> Luis
>
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