[ruby-talk:6704] dump format error with recent snapshots

Hi,

Recent snapshots has started to "break" some of my older Ruby code. The
problem is with Marshaling and the error is:

$ ruby unittest_md5_marshaling.rb
unittest_md5_marshaling.rb:6:in `load': dump format
error(0x1) (ArgumentError)
        from unittest_md5_marshaling.rb:6:in `_load'
        from unittest_md5_marshaling.rb:6:in `load'
        from unittest_md5_marshaling.rb:6

What am I doing wrong? What has changed from previous Ruby
versions? Here's example code that gives behavior above (its a patch to
md5init.c in ext/md5):

*** md5init.c.orig      Sun Oct 22 03:11:22 2000
--- md5init.c   Sun Oct 22 03:09:50 2000
***************
*** 99,104 ****
--- 99,158 ----
      return obj;
  }

+ static VALUE oMarshal;
+ static VALUE idDump;
+ static VALUE idLoad;
+
+ static VALUE
+ md5_dump(self, aDepth)
+      VALUE self;
+      VALUE aDepth;
+ {
+     MD5_CTX *md5_context;
+     VALUE ary = rb_ary_new();
+     int i;
+
+     // Get context
+     Data_Get_Struct(self, MD5_CTX, md5_context);
+
+     // Make array from data in context
+     for(i = 0; i<4; i++)
+       rb_ary_push(ary, UINT2NUM(md5_context->state[i]));
+     for(i = 0; i<2; i++)
+       rb_ary_push(ary, UINT2NUM(md5_context->count[i]));
+     for(i = 0; i<64; i++)
+       rb_ary_push(ary, UINT2NUM(md5_context->buffer[i]));
+
+     // ...and return dump of array
+     return rb_funcall(oMarshal, idDump, 1, ary);
+ }
+
+ static VALUE
+ md5_load(klass, aString)
+      VALUE klass;
+      VALUE aString;
+ {
+     VALUE obj, ary;
+     MD5_CTX *md5;
+     int i, cnt = 0;
+
+     // Wrap up a context
+     obj = Data_Make_Struct(klass, MD5_CTX, 0, free, md5);
+
+     // Load ary from string
+
+     // Setup context from values in ary
+     for(i = 0; i<4; i++)
+       md5->state[i] = NUM2UINT(rb_ary_entry(ary, cnt++));
+     for(i = 0; i<2; i++)
+       md5->count[i] = NUM2UINT(rb_ary_entry(ary, cnt++));
+     for(i = 0; i<64; i++)
+       md5->buffer[i] = (unsigned char)NUM2UINT(rb_ary_entry(ary,
cnt++));
+
+     return obj;
+ }
+
  void
  Init_md5()
  {
***************
*** 111,114 ****
--- 165,174 ----
      rb_define_method(cMD5, "digest", md5_digest, 0);
      rb_define_method(cMD5, "hexdigest", md5_hexdigest, 0);
      rb_define_method(cMD5, "clone",  md5_clone, 0);
+
+     oMarshal = rb_const_get(rb_cObject, rb_intern("Marshal"));
+     idDump = rb_intern("dump");
+     idLoad = rb_intern("load");
+     rb_define_method(cMD5, "_dump", md5_dump, 1);
+     rb_define_singleton_method(cMD5, "_load", md5_load, 1);
  }

Regards,

Robert