Re: Lua 5.2 Truncation error in lua_tointeger

[liam mail <liam.list@...>]

On 24 April 2012 22:17, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> On 8 April 2012 16:35, liam mail <liam.list@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > When using the ieee754 trick on an x86_64 machine where
>> > sizeof(lua_Integer) ==8 and sizeof(int) == 4, the following fails in
>> > 5.2 yet passes in 5.1
>> >
>> >                CPPUNIT_ASSERT(sizeof(lua_Integer) == 8);
>> >                CPPUNIT_ASSERT(sizeof(int) == 4);
>> >                lua_Integer input = 0x1ffffffff;
>> >                lua_pushinteger(l, input );
>> >                CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL(input,lua_tointeger(l,1));
>> >
>> >
>> > This is due to lua_number2integer when LUA_IEEE754TRICK is defined and
>> > called by lua_tointegerx
>> > #define lua_number2integer(i,n)         lua_number2int32(i, n, lua_Integer)
>> >
>> > Liam
>>
>> Would I be correct to assume by the lack of replies and that it is
>> also not listed on the bugs page, that this is not considered a bug?
>> If so could someone please explain why?
>
> We still did not have time to examine the issue.
>
> -- Roberto
>

OK, thanks for the reply and I am sorry for the noise.

Liam