Re: lpack question

[Luis Carvalho <carvalho@...>]

> I used the wrong cut and paste here: there ought to be another line
> prior to the print lines:
>   local mopt_unpack = string.unpack('l',block)

I think you want

  local pos, mopt_unpack = string.unpack('i', block)

Most likely your long has 64 bits, which makes string.unpack return 1.

Cheers,
Luis.

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Luis Carvalho
Applied Math PhD Student
Brown University