From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-05-24T21:19:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Endian packing errors.

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On May 23, 2005, at 11:53 AM, Brian Mitchell wrote:
> I have a number I must convert to a network long. I have been using
> this thus far with success:
>
>  [number].pack("N")
>
> for 65 it should return "\000\000\000A". It does so on my linux boxes,
> an iMac with 10.3 but on my Powerbook with 10.4 it returns the reverse
> "A\000\000\000". What is causing this. Did Apple mess up yet again
> with including ruby? Could someone duplicate this on tiger?

Not reproducible by me. MacOS 10.4.1 on a 1GHz Powerbook

[Slim:~] gavinkis% ruby -v
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.0.0]
[Slim:~] gavinkis% cat pack.rb
p [65].pack("N")
[Slim:~] gavinkis% ruby pack.rb
"\000\000\000A"
[Slim:~] gavinkis% uname -a
Darwin Slim.local 8.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.1.0: Tue May 10  
18:16:08 PDT 2005; root:xnu-792.1.5.obj~4/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh  
powerpc


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