Re: Lua bytecode compatibility on Windows and QNX.

[Charles Heywood <vandor2012@...>]

I'm also pretty sure it might be compiler independent (as in, C compiler used to compile Lua) as well but most importantly, there are cases that Lua bytecode is incompatible across environments

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016, 12:29 PM Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> >The luac (5.1) manual says that:
> >"The binary files created by luac are portable to all
> >architectures with the same word size."
> >(http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/luac.html).
> >
>
> This is not the whole truth, the architectures also need the same endianess.

This was fixed in Lua 5.2:

        "Precompiled chunks are not portable across different architectures."
        http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/luac.html

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