From: Kent Sibilev <ksruby@...>
Date: 2006-02-21T12:43:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Errors involving the number -517611318 driving me mad

The solution was to switch back to gcc 3.3

I'm not sure that it was fixed for gcc 4.0

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On 2/20/06, Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> From: "Michael Daines" <michael.daines@gmail.com>
> >
> > I keep getting strange intermittent errors in various places with
> > ruby. At present, I haven't been able to identify when this happens
> > or really when it started happening. (Though I think it may have
> > something to do with installing 1.8.3, then not wanting to deal with
> > the early incompatibilities with Ruby on Rails, and then removing
> > that, and installing 1.8.2 again.)
> >
> > The errors look like this:
> >
> >   undefined method `include?' for -517611318:Fixnum
> >
> > It always happens with the number -517611318, and I can't reproduce
> > it at will. The only reference to this I can find on the internet is
> > someone else's page that was indexed by google and had the same
> > error. See this search:
> >
> >   http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=ruby+%22-517611318:Fixnum%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
>
> Anyone know whether this is still an issue?  I see blog posts
> about it as recently as a month ago, but I *thought* I recalled
> some mention of it being fixed recently.
>
> I'd love to know if this was ever resolved.  I'm currently
> building 1.8.4 on OS X to embed into our C++ application, and
> I'd like to build with whatever compiler version and/or patches
> are needed to avoid this problem.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bill
>
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