Re: How to change io::f_seek to use 64 bit numbers

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Todor Totev wrote:
> I'd like to use (platform specific) fseek with 64-bit file offsets 
> inside io lib f_seek function.
> But it gets the lua number with luaL_optlong which truncates it to long.
> What do you suggest me to fix it?

Either patch Lua with your platform-specific fseek, or write a library.

Use luaL_optnumber rather than luaL_optlong, cast it to whatever is a 
64-bit integer type on your platform, then you'll be able to get/set 
offsets up to 2^53 bytes (assuming lua_Number is double).

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Shmuel