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Hi Lua list,
I am trying to install Lua on some new networking hardware running Linux on a ppc architechture. Everything seems to be compiling and installing fine, BUT any numbers declared within Lua come out as garbage:
ie.
lua> print (5)
1.326655507102e-315
The problem is only seen for numbers, strings, bools, tables, etc. all work as expected. I have tried dropping the define for lua_Number down to float using luaconf.h, but I see the same results. Anyway, the processor has a double-precision floating-point APU, doubles should absolutely be supported by the h/w. This doesn't seem to be the overflow value either. Here are some more examples.
lua> anumber = 123.456
lua> print ("type", type(anumber))
type number
lua> print ("value", anumber)
value 2.1136742388458e-314
lua> print ("string", "123.456")
string 123.456
lua> print (string.format(" %d %f %x",anumber,anumber,anumber))
2 0.000000 2
lua> print (anumber)
1.326655507102e-315
Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Laura