> This might be a silly question, but why did such an important thing > change? Because we aim at simplicity. We do understand that there is a need for avoiding endianness issues; hence the modified lundump.c that I posted. But that is not part of the core (perhaps we could add it to etc/). See the threads below: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-06/msg00019.html http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-01/msg00024.html http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-02/msg00507.html Now, endianness is not the only issue. See http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-06/msg00048.html I'm sorry for the inconvenience. --lhf