From: Brian Mitchell <binary42@...>
Date: 2005-05-24T22:40:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Endian packing errors.

On 5/24/05, Gavin Kistner <gavin@refinery.com> wrote:
> 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
> 

I this using the ruby that comes with 10.4, a custom build, or something else?

> [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

Thanks,
Brian.