From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-10-07T11:12:48+09:00
Subject: Re: argument passing bug

On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> ruby -e 'def foo(*x) x end; puts foo(*[42]*666).length'
> #=3D> 156
> 
> the argument count behaves almost mod 255. (why?)

It seems OK in 1.8.5:

$ ruby -ve 'def foo(*x) x end; puts foo(*[42]*666).length'
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i686-linux]
666


David

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