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On 21/08/15 08:54 AM, Philipp Janda wrote:

Am 21.08.2015 um 13:43 schröbte Liam Devine:

Lua 5.3 returns positive infinity for a negative zero denominator, which
is a change from 5.1, 5.2 and LuaJIT. Unless I am missing something,
this does not seem to be fixed in 5.3.1 or listed on the bug page[1].

liam@dmail00:~$ lua53
Lua 5.3.0  Copyright (C) 1994-2015 Lua.org, PUC-Rio

return 1/-0

inf

os.exit()


There is no negative zero integer. Try `1/-0.0`.

Philipp




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ones'_complement

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