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Wish the standard Lua distribution contain these new things... I think many of us would appreciate it.

Regards,
Attila

2011.11.02. 16:03:43 dátumon Ing. Jan Supuka SBM <sbmintegral@sbmintegral.sk> írta:

In newest LUA 5.2 beta is implemented UNSIGNED INTEGER type and library bit32 for bitwise operations.
BEAUTIFULL !

But I don't like write
     a = bit32.bor(bit32.band(5,2345),bit32.band(23,7))
instead of
     a = 5&2345|23&7
that's why I rework source codes ( lua-5.2.0-beta.tar.gz [NEW] 2011-07-08 http://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.2.0-beta.tar.gz ) to use "native" operators (based on http://www.wra1th.plus.com/lua/risclua.html source code) :
     band &
     bor     |
     bxor    ^^
     lshift <<
     rshift >>
     bnot    ~
and my own logical operators:
     and &&
     or      ||
     not     !

All source code changes are dependent on (luaconfig.h)
#define GCW_BIT
/*
GCW_BIT: Use bit library.
This extends virtual machine with bitwise operations
&,|, ^^, ~, <<, >> and provides corresponding events.
Warning! Makes code non-portable.
Affects c.lvm, c.lcode, c.lopcodes, c.ltm
c.llex, c.lparser, h.lcode, h.lopcodes
h.ltm, h.llex, h.luaconf.

additionally NUM_logical operators ( return numerical (1,0), not boolean values )
!,&&,||
*/

IMPORTANT: in standart LUA is not possible use boolean (true,false) in arithmetical operations,
but I need it.
On (lvm.c line:375) is it possible (unremark) allow using booleans only for new operators.
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Need tests, if all is correct.
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SOURCE:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lualubit/files/
BASIC TEST ... approximately 5x faster native versus bit32.bxxx operators, more readable LUA source