Re: Lua bytecodes and endian-ness

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

Could you reconsider the endianess issue?  That is, to have the  
modified lundump.c in the main sources, it could be #ifdef'fed like  
readline support is, that would be fine (= we need to specifically  
enable multi-endianness support).

This comes up at least in fink (OS X) packaging; now, we'll have to  
include & deliver a separate patch. Otherwise, we could be building  
just based on the official .tar.gz.

Thanks for the consideration, :)

-asko


Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo kirjoitti 11.6.2006 kello 2.23:

> > Roger.  So the 5.1.x luac will always generate (say) little-endian
> > bytecode and any other platforms will need to cross-compile that
> > bytecode (or the client platform requires the modified C code).?
>
> luac will always generate native-endian bytecode. There is no cross- 
> compiler
> (yet). If you want clients to load bytecode of any endiannes, just  
> build Lua
> with the modified lundump.c that I posted. I'm sorry if I wasn't  
> clear about
> that before.
> --lhf