From: Takaaki Tateishi <ttate@...>
Date: 2004-10-17T00:34:57+09:00
Subject: ruby-dev summary 24354-24486

Here is a summary of recent topics posted on ruby-dev.

ruby-dev:24354-24486

[ruby-dev:24396] Re: "a".sum(32) is 0

  Akira Tanaka claimed that "a".sum(32) should not return zero,
  since "a".sum(31) and "a".sum(33) return 97. This problem
  is caused by a specification which describes that the behavior
  of N<<(bit-width) is undefined. If you would like to check the
  this behavior on your environment, try the following C code.

    #include <stdio.h>
    int main()
    {
      int n = 32;
      printf("1<<n = %d\n", 1<<n);
      printf("1<<32 = %d\n", 1<<32);
      return 0;
    }

[ruby-dev:24405] Auto stack growing on Mac OS X

  Mitsuhiro Kondo posted a patch which realized an automatic
  stack elongation, since the default stack size on Mac OS X
  is less than that of Linux, and then posted another simple
  patch which substitutes rlim_max for rlim_cur. However,
  these two patch have not been merged yet because of further
  investigation.

[ruby-dev:24444] ARGF.read(len) and EOF

  Akira Tanaka claimed that ARGF.read should not wait for stdin,
  since normal IO eventually returns nil which represents EOF.
  So it is hard for him to use ARGF instead of IO. For example,
  FileUtils.compare_stream works fine with IO, but it doesn't
  work with ARGF to wait for stdin.
  Minero Aoki suggested that the specification of ARGF be changed
  so that we can read contents from either stdin or files listed
  in ARGV. This issue is still under consideration.
-- 
Takaaki Tateishi <ttate@ttsky.net>