Re: integer overflow vs float overflow

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

Lua stores floats in their native format. There is no difference
between a C 1.#INF00 and a Lua inf.

/s/ Adam

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Milind Gupta <milind.gupta@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>     I see that C wraps integer overflow but float reaches 1.#INF00. C must
> be doing what the processor implements. Lua 5.3 also wraps integer overflow
> for float overflow it gives inf. So does Lua check specifically when float
> overflow happens and substitute inf in place of 1.#INF00?
>     If it does is it possible to have integer arithmetic also saturating to
> inf rather than wrapping to minimum?
>
> Thanks,
> Milind
>