From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2015-02-06T10:23:54-07:00
Subject: [ruby-core:68049] Question about Array#pack and bignums

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Hi,

Between 1.8 and 1.9 it looks like there was a behavior change with
Array#pack and values that are too large for the directive in question. I
just wanted to make sure that this was expected behavior.

# For example:
[2**65].pack("I")

Ruby 1.8 raised a RangeError here, while Ruby 1.9 and later returns
"\x000\x000\x000\x00".

Is this deliberate?

Thanks,

Dan

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<div dir=3D"ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Between 1.8 and 1.9 it looks like t=
here was a behavior change with Array#pack and values that are too large fo=
r the directive in question. I just wanted to make sure that this was expec=
ted behavior.</div><div><br></div><div># For example:</div><div>[2**65].pac=
k(&quot;I&quot;)</div><div><br></div><div>Ruby 1.8 raised a RangeError here=
, while Ruby 1.9 and later returns &quot;\x000\x000\x000\x00&quot;.</div><d=
iv><br></div><div>Is this deliberate?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div=
><div><br></div><div>Dan</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>

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