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

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Please elaborate, giving a cut-and-paste of an interactive session and/or
a quote from the reference manual and/or an excerpt from the beta source
code.

Dirk

 

bit32.bnot(0) is 0xFFFFFFFF, which is different from -1 [1]

"There are times where 4Gb are a real limit:"

True I recently wrote a parser in Lua which I have now converted to C as it can not handle large numbers without pulling in another module.

[1] http://www.lua.org/work/doc/manual.html#6.7