From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-02-17T11:13:29+09:00
Subject: Re: pack("l"), 64 bit question

Hi,

In message "Re: pack("l"), 64 bit question"
    on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:46:25 +0900, H.Yamamoto <ocean@m2.ccsnet.ne.jp> writes:

|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]

Wait, ... I see.  "\377\377\377\377".unpack("l_") gives you nil
because it's shorter than sizeof(long) on the platform.  So they are
all OK.  Thank you.

Ocean, could you commit your patch?

							matz.