From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-11-10T23:56:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Unpack Endian Bug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andre Ben Hamou [mailto:andre@bluetheta.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:47 AM
> To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Unpack Endian Bug
> 
> 
> Hi everybody (annoyingly enthusiastic first post approaching),
> 
> Please smack me if this is the wrong list on which to discuss this  
> issue but I've found an interesting little (no pun intended) endian  
> bug in String#unpack.
> 
> Try this on a Mac running tiger ...

Presumably this is the same issue that was discussed in
ruby-talk:164018.  Short answer: it's a bug in the Ruby that comes with
Tiger.  Rebuild from scratch or use darwinports.

Regards,

Dan