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- Subject: Re: lua_Integer in Lua 5.3
- From: David Demelier <demelier.david@...>
- Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 20:41:08 +0100
On 02/12/2013 18:54, Coda Highland wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Lourival Vieira Neto
> <lourival.neto@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Why use 'long long' instead of int64_t for lua_Integer?
>>
>> The 5.3 manual is still referring ptrdiff_t for lua_Integer, in
>> section 4.8 [1]. It should be defined as 'long long' there, right?
>>
>> [1] http://www.lua.org/work/doc/manual.html#4.8
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Lourival Vieira Neto
>>
>
> Simple answer: int64_t is C99, Lua tries to stay compatible with C89.
>
> /s/ Adam
>
long long is not C89 neither.
