Re: lua_Integer in Lua 5.3

[Thomas Jericke <tjericke@...>]

On 12/02/2013 06:23 PM, Philipp Janda wrote:
> ... and although "long long" is not in C90 either, it was implemented 
> as an extension by many C90 compilers (and C++, I believe) before the 
> C99 standard was defined. Also, "long long" is not required to be 64 
> bits wide (but it is at least as wide as a "long"). "ptrdiff_t" on the 
> other hand *is* in C90 and has a good chance to be 64 bits on a 
> machine that supports 64 bit addresses.
>
>
> Philipp

We run Lua on a 32bit processor, and still use 64bit integers now and 
then. So I don't think "ptrdiff_t" would be a good idea. A global define 
that let one use C99 would be nice, but editing luaconf.h is actually 
not that hard either.

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Thomas