Re: 64 bit integer support as a native lua type.

[David Demelier <demelier.david@...>]

2013/9/7 Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 10:38 AM, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > But why is it that when a compiler lacks support for a feature that's
>> > been
>> > standard for years/decades, we just accept it and avoid using that
>> > feature,
>> > instead of considering it a buggy compiler and bugging the maintainers?
>>
>> Because the big boy that doesn't want to play C99 is MS; they have
>> said that they really aren't interested in C that much.
>>
>> However, 'long long' is definitely supported in the latest MSVC
>> compiler - it used to be something like _int64.  Portable code is
>> often a mess of #ifs for a reason ;)
>>
>
> Hmm, but MSVC isn't the only compiler for Windows...
>

But it's the best supported one.

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Demelier David