From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-05-28T07:52:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Help! I don't want a bignum...

Hi,

At Tue, 27 May 2003 23:46:32 +0900,
Andrew Walrond wrote:
> However, ruby kindly converts the last number, 1126301404 (0x4321fedc
> in hex which fits nicely in a long) to a Bignum, but syscall only
> accepts a Fixnum

syscall should accept also Bignums.


Index: io.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ruby/src/ruby/io.c,v
retrieving revision 1.209
diff -u -2 -p -r1.209 io.c
--- io.c	21 May 2003 17:49:18 -0000	1.209
+++ io.c	27 May 2003 16:27:58 -0000
@@ -3450,4 +3450,7 @@ rb_f_syscall(argc, argv)
 	    arg[i] = (unsigned long)NUM2LONG(*argv);
 	}
+	else if (!SPECIAL_CONST_P(*argv) && BUILTIN_TYPE(*argv) == T_BIGNUM) {
+	    arg[i] = rb_big2ulong(*argv);
+	}
 	else {
 	    VALUE v = *argv;


-- 
Nobu Nakada