Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.1 (rc1) now available

Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.1 (rc1) now available
From: Brigham Toskin &lt;brighamtoskin@ ... &gt;
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 12:15:44 -0700

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> > By the way, there is a single case of wrong comparison with NaN:
> > print(1<<63 <= 0/0) --> true
> > It is hardly dangerous, just curious (I'm not proposing to fix it).
>
> Thanks for the report. (Of course it must be fixed; it is a bug.)

(And it can be "dangerous": it is converting NaN to integer, which
can trap on some machines.)

Not to mention any code that depends on the semantics of comparisons with NaN will break.

Brigham Toskin