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Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
This turns out to be because on OS X strtod handles the conversion of '-0x1', for which we can thank C99, and on Windows (I assume) strtoul handles the conversion of '-0x1'. I find the whole situation rather repellant.


That is why we were always reluctant to add hexa constants in Lua.
(They entered Lua 5.1 by accident...)

Please do not remove them!

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Shmuel