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:

Though formally it's not Lua's fault, in practice it leads to problems.
Are the benefits of using those 2 assembly instructions (yet another
piece of non ANSI C) big enough to justify fighting with compatibility
issues?

Is there a benchmark showing noticeable gain in performance of this 
piece versus the other ("non-Microsoft") variant of lua_number2integer, 
or maybe this was introduced to avoid issues with DirectX?

--
Shmuel