Re: Lua string library partially reimplemented in Lua

["Alex Davies" <alex.mania@...>]

Mike Pall wrote:
> Since Lua doesn't have a standard bit manipulation library (yet),
> I took the liberty to define its semantics:

Much needed addition. And I like the rules, can see how they can provide for 
efficient optimizations, but may I ask why it's necessary to make 
non-integral numbers behave in an implementation defined behaviour on modern 
processors? (Is it to allow for more algebraic simplifications?)

I see now of course that the mov esi, [esp+0x60]s are stack loads, when I 
first glanced at it I thought they may have been the x[12]/x[1] which looked 
like table loads (missing the esp completely - it was late)

In any case looks like a great addition, much better then userdata bitfields 
or similar.

- Alex