Re: problem with string.format %d and very large integers

[Florian Weimer <fw@...>]

* Xavier Wang:

> 2011/7/28 Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>:
>> * Norman Ramsey:
>>
>>> The first law holds, but if n is sufficiently large, the second does not:
>>>
>>>     : nr@labrador 12309 ; lua
>>>     Lua 5.1.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
>>
>> Whay kind of architecture do you use?  It works for me as expcted with
>> Lua 5.1.4 on Debian squeeze amd64.

> Obviously he is on a 32x machine :)  -2147483648 == -2^32

Not so obvious.  %d expects an int argument, which is 32 bit on amd64,
too.  Perhaps the C varargs calling convention is fixing things up on
amd64, but I'm not sure.