From: Zev Blut <rubyzbibd@...>
Date: 2004-10-28T20:09:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Mysterious Date Parsing Failures: NaN

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:49:21 +0900, Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Zev Blut wrote:
>
>> That is quite odd, I cannot recreate it on my machine.
>
> Did you try calling it a lot. It happens only once every few hundred
> thousand times.

Ah, no I did not.  Although, I just tried it with the following code
with no problems.

require "date"
(1000000).times { Date.new(2003, 4, 11) }


>> Although, digging through the source code makes me think it might be
>> a C library issue with your "math.h" implementation.
>
> Hm. I wonder.
>
>> So in order to help the ones in the know; What is your output when you
>> type "ruby -v" ?
>
>     ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-netbsdelf2.0.]
>
> uname -a gives:
>
>     NetBSD dev1.tabemo.com 2.0_BETA NetBSD 2.0_BETA ($Id:  
> TABEMO.WORKSTATION,v 1.1 2004/09/27 07:02:01 cjs Exp $) #2: Mon Sep 27  
> 16:04:17 JST 2004   
> cjs@dev1.tabemo.com:/u/netbsd/src-2.0/sys/arch/i386/compile/TABEMO.WORKSTATION  
> i386

Just for comparison's sake, here are the details of the machine I ran it  
on:

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-05-24) [i686-linux]
$ uname -a
Linux TwinStar 2.4.20-8smp #1 SMP Thu Mar 13 17:45:54 EST 2003 i686 i686  
i386
GNU/Linux

If I get some time this weekend I might boot up my Sparc 5 with NetBSD and  
see
what it does.  But, hopefully someone in the know will answer the problem
before then :-)

Best,
Zev