[luatex] Will the next version of LuaTeX allow integer up to 2^(63)-1?

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2015-10-02 at 17:11:35 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:

 > going 64 bit internally in tex would mean a lot of checking and
 > patching of code

Does it really matter whether a user specifies a number which is too
large in his TeX input file or whether such a number comes from Lua?

Regards,
  Reinhard

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