Re: FPE with using >INT_MAX numbers in Lua

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> I sent the following email to team@lua.org on July 09 but didnt get a response from them.

We never got that message, sorry.

> If in one's C code, SIGFPEs are enabled for invalid floating point operations (with fpsetmask(FP_X_INV) or feenableexcept(FE_INVALID) or
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> perhaps Lua needs to set those exceptions off when it begins parsing
> and revert their state when it finishes parsing.

Lua uses C89 and so has no access to C99 floating point exception handling.
Perhaps you can disable exceptions before calling Lua.