From: Robert <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-05-28T07:52:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Help! I don't want a bignum...


"Andrew Walrond" <andrew@walrond.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:3ED3D146.5030009@walrond.org...
> Nobody has a solution?? Surely I haven't stumped you all ;)

No, we're waiting for the first poster to shoot him down then.  Ooops, that
might be me then... :-)

My guess would be, that you might have found an error in 'syscall' and / or
Fixnum and / or conversion between number literals and objects.

Maybe someone more intimate with the ruby source (matz?) could comment on
this.

Regards

    robert


> Andrew Walrond wrote:
> > Ok, I'm sure there is an easy way round this, but I can't see it...
> >
> > I want to do this...
> >
> > syscall 88,-18751827,672274793,1126301404
> >
> > Which is the kernel sys_reboot call to power-off.
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Any idea how to get around this???
> >
> > Andrew Walrond