Re: Incompatibility of lua5.1.dll (from Lua Binaries) and Delphi

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Mike Pall wrote:
> Lua is not at fault here. The Borland/Delphi runtime modifies the
> FPU control word and enables FP exceptions. This violates the
> Windows ABI and causes plenty of interoperability problems:
>
>   http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=53

Thanks, this article explains it all!

Now, with that additional information, a new question arises:
if Borland modified the FP control word, they surely wanted to achieve 
something, so if I change it back, wouldn't I break that something?

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Shmuel