From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-12-08T18:34:22+09:00
Subject: Am I missing something about BER-compressed integer?

All:

The following:

p [9999].pack("w")

gives:

"\316\017"

but I expected to get:

"\047\017"

Notice the correct bit pattern for the upper octet (100111) appears in
the octet generated by Ruby (11001110) but shifted and with an extra
bit at the top. Is this a bug in pack("w"), or is my expectation
wrong?

Thanks,
-f