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

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Lorenzo Donati
<lorenzodonatibz@interfree.it> wrote:
> The seek problem seem, IMHO, more fundamental. As you point out rightfully,
> it is not Lua's fault. OTOH sticking to ISO C here severely hampers the
> ability of Lua of handling very large dataset on disk piecewise. I cannot
> provide a concrete use case for lack of direct experience, but it doesn't
> seem unlikely that someone would want to use Lua for such tasks.

Seems like a good job for a extension?  The only 'gotcha' is the known
difficulty of creating Lua file objects from C in a portable fashion.
We discussed that recently, and came to no clear conclusion.

steve d.