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

[Hans Hagen]

On 10/3/2015 3:06 AM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> 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?

hard to say but sometimes tex packs data together so casts happen (many 
internals are so called halfwords)

(also tex's maxdimen etc checks kick in)

Hans


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