Re: LUA_NUMBER -> Integer conversion bug

["Michael Newberry" <mnewberry@...>]

Lots of end-users have D3D installed. How are we Lua programmers supposed to 
prevent our application from breaking?

Michael

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Pall" <mikelu-0603@mike.de>
To: "Lua list" <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: LUA_NUMBER -> Integer conversion bug


> Hi,
>
> Sebastian Rohde wrote:
> > When I comment this out everything works great with the fallback cast.
>
> Maybe. Maybe not. Do you use Direct3D/DirectX? If yes, then you
> are just shadowing the problem here and it will come back to
> haunt you elsewhere. Read:
>
>  http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-10/msg00254.html
>
> It should be noted that turning on D3DCREATE_FPU_PRESERVE
> reportedly has no detectable performance impact on modern CPUs.
>
> Bye,
>     Mike