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- Subject: Re: NaN trick
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 11:30:19 -0300
> What if Lua was embedded into the kernel and hence got allocated some
> memory in kernel space? I know of at least two cases of 5.1 being
> embedded into a kernel.
Lua embedded in the kernel does not use double for numbers. (Most
kernels do not allow floating-point manipulation to avoid having to save
the floating-point registers.)
-- Roberto
