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Re: [patch] changing lua_Number to int64_t



On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost> wrote:
> Am 17.11.13 04:49, schrieb Terry Moore:
>> I believe that if you want the Lua scripts to be portable across NetBSD
>> deployments, you should choose a well-known fixed width.
>
> I don't see this as very important.  Lua scripts will hardly depend on
> the size of an integer.

But they could. I think that the script programmers should know if the
numeric data type is enough for their usage (e.g., time diffs).

Regards,
-- 
Lourival Vieira Neto


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