Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (rc4) now available

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 06/01/2015 13:37, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> Lua 5.3.0 (rc4) is now available for testing at
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.3.0-rc4.tar.gz
>
> MD5	a1b0a7e92d0c85bbff7a8d27bf29f8af  -
> SHA1	1c46d1c78c44039939e820126b86a6ae12dadfba  -
>
> This is a release candidate for the final release of Lua 5.3.0.
>
> A few things have changed since beta that we'd like to test in the wild.
> In particular, we made some changes in luaconf.h and in the Makefile
> that we'd like to test. Please try compiling the current code in as many
> platforms as possible. We expect the compilation will go smoothly as usual
> but please report any warnings or other glitches.
>
> We'd also like feedback on the documentation:
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/doc/readme.html
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/doc/contents.html
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/doc/manual.html
>
> Finally, for those of you into this, please test luac -l -l on your
> scripts, just to make sure we haven't missed anything with the new
> VM instructions etc.
>
> The main change in Lua 5.3.0 is the introduction of integers. See also
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/doc/#changes
>
> The complete diffs are available at
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/diffs-lua-5.3.0-rc3-rc4.txt
>
> An updated test suite is available at
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.3.0-rc4-tests.tar.gz
>
> All feedback welcome. Thanks.

I don't know if feedback on typos in code comments are welcome, but in 
the newly added fragment of code in the diff there is one:

> ** $Id: loadlib.c,v 1.124 2015/01/05 13:51:39 roberto Exp $
137a138,149
> /*
> ** Macro to covert pointer to void* to pointer to function. This cast
> ** is undefined according to ISO C, but POSIX assumes that it must work.
> ** (The '__extension__' in gnu compilers is only to avoid warnings.)
> */

see "Macro to *convert*" instead of "*covert*".

-- Lorenzo