Re: Weird embedded literal number/compiler issue

[Tim Maxwell <timmaxw@...>]

> Any suggestions?
>
> In the past, the header contained a sample lua_Number that was  
> meant for
> testing this. However, it turned out that different compilers created
> different bit patterns (usually the difference was in the last bit).
> So, it was not robust.

Unfortunately, a sample lua_Number was the only solution that I could  
think of. Would the least-significant-bit issue go away if the  
correct value was chosen for the constant? I believe that there are  
some values that IEEE 754 can represent exactly...

> I started writing one such tool but never finished because it was too
> complicated to cater for all needs.

What needs did you see? It seems to me that number format conversion  
is the main issue.

Tim Maxwell