Re: Embedded Lua

[David Jones <drj@...>]

On Mar 31, 2006, at 07:15, Lisa Parratt wrote:

> On 30 Mar 2006, at 23:46, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
>
> > Also, the Lua core depends lightly on the ANSI C runtime library.
> > Besides some simple functions from string.h and ctype.h, it needs
> > sprintf and strtod to convert doubles to and from text, and setjmp,
> > longjmp and exit. Lua 5.1 also needs pow, floor, and localeconv.
> > The Lua libraries depend more heavily on the C standard library.
>
> I don't see this as an advantage. The first thing I have to do with a 
> new Lua release is patch in an abstraction layer so that these may be 
> easily replaced. Personally I'd like to see every "standard" function 
> call given a prefix and a default header file of #defines that maps 
> them to their nonprefixed equivalents.

Why can't you just provide replacements for the C standard library 
facilities that have the same names as the functions from the C 
standard library?

David Jones