From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-02-16T02:49:00+09:00
Subject: Re: pack("l"), 64 bit question

Hi,

In message "Re: pack("l"), 64 bit question"
    on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:35:53 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> writes:

||irb(main):003:0> "\377\377\377\377".unpack("l")
||=> [4294967295]
|
|Hmm, unpack("l") should have returned negative value unless "_" suffix
|is supplied.

This means EXTEND32() macro in pack.c is not working on 64bit Solaris
(and perhaps on other 64bit systems neither).  I have no 64bit machine
at hand.  Could somebody confirm?

							matz.