From: lists <lists@...>
Date: 2005-11-08T12:52:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Possible Array#pack issue on OS X?

The pack('v') from OS 10.4's default ruby (/usr/bin/ruby) is  
currently broken:

% /usr/bin/ruby -e "p [0x31].pack('v')"
"\0001"

Here's the ruby from darwinports.org:

% ruby -e "p [0x31].pack('v')"
"1\000"

-Ryan

On Nov 7, 2005, at 8:32 PM, Daniel Berger wrote:

> Jeremy Kemper wrote:
>> On Nov 7, 2005, at 5:57 PM, Daniel Berger wrote:
>>> [0x31].pack("v")
>>
>> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.2.0]
>>
>> irb(main):001:0> [0x31].pack("v")
>> => "1\000"
>>
>> jeremy
>
> One email I've received says this:
>
> TiBook-5:~ xdefrang$ uname -a
> Darwin TiBook-5.local 8.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.3.0: Mon Oct  3
> 20:04:04 PDT 2005; root:xnu-792.6.22.obj~2/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh
> powerpc
>
> result: "\0001"
>
> So, I'm quite confused.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>
>