From: Matt Mencel <MR-Mencel@...>
Date: 2010-08-11T23:12:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Error: Bignum too big to convert into `long'

Solaris 10 SPARC is 64bit.  It may be the ruby version I have installed was compiled for 32bit?  It's an older version of 1.8.7 off of sunfreeware.com.  I noticed that sunfreeware has a newer 1.9.1 version available there now so I think I'll upgrade ruby to 1.9.1 and see what happens.

Thanks,
Matt


----- Original Message -----
From: "botp" <botpena@gmail.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 9:18:30 PM
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