Overflow handling in lua

[meino.cramer@...]

Hi,

lua is based on C and in the according headers
there are the following defines:

stdint.h:# define INT8_MAX		(127)
stdint.h:# define INT16_MAX		(32767)
stdint.h:# define INT32_MAX		(2147483647)
stdint.h:# define INT64_MAX		(__INT64_C(9223372036854775807))
stdint.h:# define UINT8_MAX		(255)
stdint.h:# define UINT16_MAX		(65535)
stdint.h:# define UINT32_MAX		(4294967295U)
stdint.h:# define UINT64_MAX		(__UINT64_C(18446744073709551615))

In which way does this apply to Lua and what happens if
an overflow happens when doing something like this

a=0
while a == a do
    a=a+1
end

Best regards,
mcc