How to handle long long number?

Subject: How to handle long long number?
From: &quot;jason zhang&quot; &lt;jzhang@<a href="/index.cgi/contrast/http://lua-users.org/cgi-bin/echo.cgi?sunrisetelecom.com.cn">... &gt;
Date: 2006年8月24日 08:33:54 +0800

Hi,

Lua use double to represent all kind of numbers, so if I push a long long number

into the stack from C function, it will be converted to double and lost precision. How to handle this

problem? In my application, long long is important for some huge number.

Thank you