From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-12-20T14:57:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7742] Re: strange border-case Numeric errors

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:7737] strange border-case Numeric errors"
    on 00/12/20, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> writes:

|I haven't had a good enough chance to familiarize myself with the code in 
|question, so I cannot supply a fix at the moment, but I have a couple border 
|case bugs.

sorry, here's the patch:

Index: bignum.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/ruby/bignum.c,v
retrieving revision 1.28
diff -u -1 -r1.28 bignum.c
--- bignum.c	2000/11/17 04:41:09	1.28
+++ bignum.c	2000/12/20 05:56:47
@@ -1254,3 +1262,3 @@
     for (i=0; i<len; i++) {
-	num = num | *xds++<<s2;
+	num = num | (BDIGIT_DBL)*xds++<<s2;
 	*zds++ = BIGLO(num);