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- Subject: Re: string format help
- From: Coda Highland <chighland@...>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 10:17:50 -0700
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:39 AM, James Chang <jcchang92@gmail.com> wrote:
> Apologies, let me reword that. In my limited exposure to lua, it seems that
> most people use it on intel chips. Sparc and solaris seem to round
> differently from x86 at least, which is what produces the discrepancy
> between these two test results. Pedantic question: Is there anything else we
> can conclude from this test working/breaking other than "okay you can't use
> numbers that are out of range"? I am pretty sure it was not written with
> sparc/solaris in mind.
>
> -- James
I feel reasonably certain that this is exactly the conclusion that
this test is supposed to draw. Why would you expect more?
/s/ Adam
P.S. Don't top-post; put your comments at the bottom of your e-mail replies.
- References:
- string format help, James Chang
- Re: string format help, James Chang
- Re: string format help, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
- Re: string format help, James Chang
- Re: string format help, Roberto Ierusalimschy
- Re: string format help, James Chang
- Re: string format help, Philipp Janda
- Re: string format help, James Chang
- Re: string format help, Roberto Ierusalimschy
- Re: string format help, James Chang