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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,162 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Sun 03 Feb 2008 10:02 PM (UTC) Amended on Mon 04 Feb 2008 03:25 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon
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| Message
| There has been a bug-fix of Lua released. The latest Lua version is now 5.1.3.
Versions 4.03 to 4.21 of MUSHclient were released with Lua 5.1.2.
The changes in Lua 5.1.3 are noted here (that is, the bugs which were in 5.1.2, but not in 5.1.3):
http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.1.2
Most of the bug-fixes are fairly obscure, however if you want the latest version of the script engine, simply download this file, unzip it, and replace the lua5.1.dll in your MUSHclient installation directory with the one from the download. There is also a new version of lua5.1.exe for standalone operation, and luac5.1.exe (in a separate download) for pre-compiling.
The DLL has exactly the same name as before, which is required because MUSHclient is linked against the DLL name.
The new version is available at:
http://www.gammon.com.au/files/mushclient/lua5.1_extras/lua5.1.zip
It is 101 Kb in size.
Lua 5.1.3 will be supplied with forthcoming releases (that is, MUSHclient 4.22 onwards).
If you believe that any of the bugs mentioned in the release notes might affect you, you can install the updated DLL on top of any earlier version of MUSHclient that already has lua5.1.dll in the MUSHclient installation directory. Any earlier scripts should continue to work perfectly.
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- Nick Gammon
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Date
| Reply #1 on Sun 03 Feb 2008 10:03 PM (UTC) Amended on Sun 03 Feb 2008 10:34 PM (UTC) by Nick Gammon
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| Message
| The md5sums for the files in the Lua extras directory are now:
fa6515b07b043812d77c9b9dc0ce3f53 *G15_Display.zip
fe8ce7d694fa2cd4229f28165f8629b5 *lua5.1.zip
6bd118222bcf9287f4c8c57f2dd6bd98 *lua5.1_lib.zip
062877fb0aff718f0c0f4fb3e233dae4 *luac5.1.zip
02f70e7e108ebdb7e7276cef27a295ac *luacom.zip
3a5d1c196819d957578f77231070153e *mysql.zip
7ebf3323439afe75d47f565c3a477d0e *odbc.zip
f50a017e6fcbb3a5489623ea9ad4c989 *windows_utils.zip
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- Nick Gammon
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Date
| Reply #2 on Sun 03 Feb 2008 10:09 PM (UTC) Amended on Sun 03 Feb 2008 10:10 PM (UTC) by Nick Gammon
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| The differences between the Lua DLL released here, and the standard one from the Lua site are described here:
http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=7795
These are exactly the same differences as in the previous version. Basically some of the compatability options between Lua 5.1 and Lua 5.0 are turned off, as the Lua developers themselves recommend. Also, 64-bit arithmetic is used in some places instead of 32-bit arithmetic. This only applies to the use of string.format with a %i or %d formatting sequence. |
- Nick Gammon
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| Posted by
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| Reply #3 on Sun 03 Feb 2008 10:38 PM (UTC) Amended on Sun 03 Feb 2008 10:41 PM (UTC) by Nick Gammon
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| There was a problem with my initial release of these zip files about half an hour ago. If you downloaded them immediately the announcement was made you would get an error trying to use the DLL in MUSHclient, due to the fact I misread my own instructions for building the Lua DLL. Specifically, in the file luaconf.h should have been the line:
#define LUA_COMPAT_OPENLIB
If you have the wrong version you will get an error message about not finding an entry point for "luaL_openlib" in the DLL. This has now been corrected. |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Date
| Reply #4 on Sun 03 Feb 2008 10:49 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| A quick way of testing if you have the latest version of the Lua DLL is to test the erroneous handling of deleting table entries which are out-of-bounds, which existed in Lua 5.1.2:
a = {1,2,3}
table.remove(a, 4)
print(a[3]) --> nil (should be 3)
If the test prints nil, you have version 5.1.2. If it prints 3 you have version 5.1.3 (onwards). |
- Nick Gammon
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Date
| Reply #5 on Wed 27 Feb 2008 09:18 PM (UTC) Amended on Wed 27 Feb 2008 11:39 PM (UTC) by Nick Gammon
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| Message
| The diffs from the DLL released here (and with MUSHclient) and the absolute standard Lua source is this:
diff src/Makefile ../lua-5.1.3-mushclient/src/Makefile
11c11
< CFLAGS= -O2 -Wall $(MYCFLAGS)
---
> CFLAGS= -O3 -Wall $(MYCFLAGS)
107c107
< $(MAKE) "LUA_A=lua51.dll" "LUA_T=lua.exe" \
---
> $(MAKE) "LUA_A=lua5.1.dll" "LUA_T=lua.exe" \
diff src/luaconf.h ../lua-5.1.3-mushclient/src/luaconf.h
336c336
< #define LUA_COMPAT_VARARG
---
> #undef LUA_COMPAT_VARARG
343c343
< #define LUA_COMPAT_MOD
---
> #undef LUA_COMPAT_MOD
351c351
< #define LUA_COMPAT_LSTR 1
---
> #undef LUA_COMPAT_LSTR
358c358
< #define LUA_COMPAT_GFIND
---
> #undef LUA_COMPAT_GFIND
738a739,740
> #define LUA_USELONGLONG // njg
>
741c743
< #define LUA_INTFRMLEN "ll"
---
> #define LUA_INTFRMLEN "I64"
To compile, I used this:
make "CC=gcc -mno-cygwin" mingw
Basically the changes are:
- Cranked optimization up from O2 (Optimize even more) to O3 (Optimize yet more).
- Changed the DLL name to lua5.1.dll (rather than lua51.dll).
- Turn off some compatability options: LUA_COMPAT_VARARG, LUA_COMPAT_MOD, LUA_COMPAT_LSTR, and LUA_COMPAT_GFIND. The comments in the file luaconf.h suggest turning those off as soon as possible, so I have done that. In other words, I am following the suggestions made by the Lua developers here.
- Turn on the option LUA_USELONGLONG, and use the appropriate format specifiers, in order to better support conversion from floating point to integers. This particularly applies to the string.format function. In particular, printing a large number works better:
print (string.format ("%d", 2^62)) --> 4611686018427387904
Without LUA_USELONGLONG the largest number you could successfully print would be 2^31 - 1 - that is, 2147483647, rather than 2^62, that is, 4611686018427387904.
However see http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=8505 - only numbers up to 2^52 can be stored with full precision.
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