Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (beta) now available

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> > It was thus said that the Great Roberto Ierusalimschy once stated:
> >>
> >> * ANSI mode turns off 64 bits (as 'long long' is not ANSI)
> >
> >   Give in to the Dark Side!  Renounce Microsoft and embrase C99!
> 
> there are still compilers for embedded platforms that are ANSI and not
> C99; therefore, it makes sense not to depend on any non-ANSI feature
> when targeting ANSI.
> 
> AFAICT, this has nothing to do with MS

Exactly. It is easy to detect MS, and MS supports 'long long' in
the form of __int64 (and so does Lua). The problem are embedded
(and old) platforms.

-- Roberto