Re: upcoming changes in Lua 5.2 [was Re: Location of a package]

[Enrico Tassi <gareuselesinge@...>]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:50:48AM -0300, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > Roberto, is there any description of upcoming changes in Lua 5.2?
> - some form of bit operations. (We are not very happy with any
> known implementation. Maybe just incorporate bitlib?)

I've no idea on how bitlib internally works, but it proved to be pretty
portable (and it took a while to fix it). It has been tested on every
architecture supported by debian (see:
http://buildd.debian.org/build.cgi?pkg=lua-bit)

Cheers
-- 
Enrico Tassi