From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-08-20T10:24:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash values too big to fit into buckets

Hi,

At Fri, 20 Aug 2004 04:36:23 +0900,
Nate Smith wrote in [ruby-talk:109851]:
> When @expansion.hash is very large, the hash values get large, and
> values like: 67 4 -946450216   for @nonTerminal.hash, @action.hash, and
> @expansion.hash, respectively, generate the following error:
> 
> in `hash': bignum too big to convert into `int' (RangeError)

It seems to work for me.

  $ cat a.rb
  class X; def hash; 1 << 34; end; end
  x = X.new
  p x.hash, x.hash.class
  h = {x => 1}
  p h[x]

  $ ruby16 -v a.rb
  ruby 1.6.8 (2003-10-15) [i686-linux]
  17179869184
  Bignum
  1

  $ ruby18 -v a.rb
  ruby 1.8.2 (2004-08-19) [i686-linux]
  17179869184
  Bignum
  1

-- 
Nobu Nakada