<s>
RiscLua	B-Language
is	O
an	O
implementation	O
of	O
Lua	B-Language
to	O
RISC	B-Operating_System
OS	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
has	O
minor	O
syntactic	O
modifications	O
from	O
standard	O
Lua	B-Language
so	O
that	O
its	O
riscos	B-Operating_System
library	O
can	O
provide	O
system	O
calls	O
,	O
with	O
a	O
syntax	O
similar	O
to	O
that	O
of	O
BBC	B-Language
Basic	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
RiscLua	B-Language
has	O
been	O
developed	O
since	O
2002	O
with	O
the	O
intention	O
of	O
providing	O
for	O
RISC	B-Operating_System
OS	I-Operating_System
a	O
more	O
modern	O
alternative	O
to	O
BBC	B-Language
Basic	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
So	O
the	O
riscos	B-Operating_System
and	O
lpeg	O
libraries	O
were	O
provided	O
statically	O
linked	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Furthermore	O
,	O
until	O
recently	O
,	O
RISC	B-Operating_System
OS	I-Operating_System
was	O
only	O
implemented	O
on	O
platforms	O
whose	O
CPUs	O
did	O
not	O
afford	O
floating	O
point	O
arithmetic	O
in	O
hardware	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
that	O
reason	O
previous	O
versions	O
differed	O
from	O
standard	O
Lua	B-Language
in	O
only	O
providing	O
32-bit	O
integers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
current	O
version	O
,	O
however	O
,	O
is	O
effectively	O
standard	O
Lua	B-Language
.	O
</s>
