From: botp <botpena@...>
Date: 2010-08-11T11:18:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Error: Bignum too big to convert into `long'

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Matt Mencel <MR-Mencel@wiu.edu> wrote:
> Another reason for me to dislike Solaris SPARC.

you may let ruby do the work for you :)
try ruby 1.9

eg,

$ ruby -ve 'puts("#{(-1.size==4?32:64)}bit", Time.at(4102380000))'
ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-07-11 revision 28618) [i686-linux]
32bit
2099-12-31 14:00:00 +0800

best regards -botp