From: "H.Yamamoto" <ocean@...2.ccsnet.ne.jp>
Date: 2006-02-17T09:46:25+09:00
Subject: Re: pack("l"), 64 bit question

Hello.

>|Looks good.  The only one I found odd was the [nil] returned by 
>|"\377\377\377\377".unpack("l_").  Is that expected?  The 32 bit version returns 
>|[-1].
>
>No, it should return [4294967295].  How about a patch from Ville
>Mattila in [ruby-talk:180126]?

Are these also unexpected?

irb(main):009:0> [123].pack("s").unpack("l")
=> [nil]
irb(main):010:0> [123].pack("s").unpack("q")
=> [nil]
irb(main):011:0> [123].pack("l").unpack("q")
=> [nil]