Re: precompiled code from calls.lua broken on big endian systems

[Dan Horák <dan@...>]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:41:02 -0300
Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> > the calls test fails in Lua 5.4 on big endian platforms (ppc64, s390x),
> > please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2226537 for the
> > original report. I suppose it is because the precompiled code added in
> > https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/ab859fe59b464a038a45552921cb2b23892343af
> > is from a little endian system (eg. x86) and is platform specific, thus
> > it won't load correctly on a big endian system. Is there a way how to
> > fix it?
> 
> For us, it is not worth the effort to make that test portable.
> (Endianess is not its only problem.)  We added an "if not _port then"
> around it to make that clear.

thanks, skipping the test makes sense in such situation


		Dan