The definitions in llimits.h are useful not only for the core. That
header only defines types and '#define's, so libs and core still do
not share any real code/data.
Any C function can receive maxinteger as an integer argument, and
therefore cannot increment it without some care (e.g., doing unsigned
arithmetic as the core does).
'simplesect' encloses the introductory text of sections with
subsections, so that each section either is all text or is all
subsections. (This commit also corrects a small brace error in the
manual and extra spaces/tabs in some other files.)
The macro 'luaL_pushfail' documents all places in the standard libraries
that return nil to signal some kind of failure. It is defined as
'lua_pushnil'. The manual also got a notation (@fail) to document those
returns. The tests were changed to be agnostic regarding whether 'fail'
is 'nil' or 'false'.
- The preprocessor must work with at least 'long', and therefore must
do shifts of up to 31 bits correctly.
- Whenever possible, use unsigned types in shifts.
All UTF-8 encoding functionality (including the escape
sequence '\u') accepts all values from the original UTF-8
specification (with sequences of up to six bytes).
By default, the decoding functions in the UTF-8 library do not
accept invalid Unicode code points, such as surrogates. A new
parameter 'nonstrict' makes them accept all code points up to
(2^31)-1, as in the original UTF-8 specification.
An 'int' may have only 16 bits, so it may not be big enough for UTF-8
values. The new type 'utfint' (in the utf8 library) ensures at least
21 bits for those values.
