From: Aaron Patterson <aaron_patterson@...>
Date: 2006-06-04T15:34:59+09:00
Subject: Ruby's Bignum

Hi everyone.  I'm porting some C code to pure ruby, and I would like to
keep Ruby from turning my numbers in to Bignums.  Is that possible?

For example, in C:

  printf("number: %d\n", 0xd76aa478);

Prints "number: -680876936"

In ruby:

irb(main):001:0> puts 0xd76aa478
3614090360
=> nil

Is it possible to get ruby to behave the same way as C?  This seems like
something easy to do, I'm just having a hard time figuring it out.
Thank you!

--Aaron