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authorLua Team <team@lua.org>2005-09-09 12:00:00 +0000
committerrepogen <>2005-09-09 12:00:00 +0000
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-.\" luac.man,v 1.25 2002/12/13 11:45:12 lhf Exp
-.TH LUAC 1 "2002/12/13 11:45:12"
+.\" $Id: luac.man,v 1.26 2005/09/02 16:29:34 lhf Exp $
+.TH LUAC 1 "$Date: 2005/09/02 16:29:34 $"
.SH NAME
luac \- Lua compiler
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -38,14 +38,7 @@ option.
.LP
The binary files created by
.B luac
-are portable to all architectures with the same word size.
-This means that
-binary files created on a 32-bit platform (such as Intel)
-can be read without change in another 32-bit platform (such as Sparc),
-even if the byte order (``endianness'') is different.
-On the other hand,
-binary files created on a 16-bit platform cannot be read in a 32-bit platform,
-nor vice-versa.
+are portable only among architectures with the same word size and byte order.
.LP
In the command line,
you can mix
@@ -132,5 +125,4 @@ Error messages should be self explanatory.
L. H. de Figueiredo,
R. Ierusalimschy and
W. Celes
-(lua@tecgraf.puc-rio.br)
.\" EOF