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

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 27/07/2011 23.10, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> >      >  =big
> >      2500000000
> >      >  =string.format('%d', big)
> >      -2147483648
>
> This works fine in 5.2:
>
> Lua 5.2.0  Copyright (C) 1994-2011 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> > big=2500000000
> > =string.format('%d', big)
> 2500000000
Strangely enough, it doesn't work for me and neither this one :

-- Lua 5.2.0 on Windows XP (SP2)
-- CPU: Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T7500
-- Compiled with TDM-GCC 4.5.2
x = 2^31
print( ("%.0f     %d"):format(x,x) )
--> 2147483648     -2147483648

-- Lorenzo