From: Charles Steinman <acharlieblue@...>
Date: 2005-05-24T22:55:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Endian packing errors.


Gavin Kistner wrote:
> 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

I suspect that's a custom build, because the version string is slightly
different from mine, which just says [powerpc-darwin8.0] (no second .0
at the end). Are you sure this is the bundled copy?