Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work2) now available

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 16.04.2014 13:24 schröbte Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo:
> > I'm not sure whether it is possible to detect the native endianess
> > and/or integer word size in pure Lua
>
> In Lua 5.3, you can:
>
> a=string.packint(1)
> print(#a)		-- native lua_Integer size
> print(a:byte(1,1))	-- native endianness

Ah, I had already forgotten about this function. But we need the native 
size of int (and short, and long, and size_t) not lua_Integer.

Philipp