RE: Lua bytecodes and endian-ness

["Greg McCreath" <Greg.McCreath@...>]

Thanks Luiz,

This might be a silly question, but why did such an important thing
change?

Greg.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo [mailto:lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br] 
Sent: Sunday, 11 June 2006 8:24 AM
To: Lua list
Subject: Re: Lua bytecodes and endian-ness

> I didn't realise that endianess was an issue with lua.

It wasn't until 5.0 but this changed in 5.1. Sorry.

> It sounds like we've got to have multiple compiled versions of code at
> the host for each endian type then ... ?

If endianness is the only difference in the clients, then you can use
the lundump.c that I posted earlier today.
--lhf



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