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- Subject: Re: Compile LUA for 16-bit target problems/bug
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 10:17:17 -0300
> I guess Lua is designed for only those two /hosted/ C implementations in
> mind (Win32/64 and *NIX) and has some issues with other platforms C
> /hosted/ implementations (which is also understandable, since they are much
> rarer nowadays).
That is not true.
Lua is designed with ISO C in mind as its host. Any bit specific for
Windows/Unix should be explicitly turned on by some macro. It should
compile and run in *any* hosted implementation of C that satisfies
either the C 89 standard or the C 99 standard. (C 99 out of the box,
C 89 with the macro LUA_USE_C89 defined.)
Lua also has freestanding implementations in mind, but it may need a few
adjustments depending on what is missing. (Case in point: the Lua core
uses 'sprintf'. This function does no I/O and is completely independent
of the OS, but it is not part of the freestanding standard; so, one may
need to provide an implementation for it.)
-- Roberto
