From: Takaaki Tateishi <ttate@...>
Date: 2003-12-31T00:45:11+09:00
Subject: ruby-dev summary 22273-22434

Hello,

Here is a ruby-dev summary in these days.

I would like to express my thanks to advisors
and commenters on our activity in this year.
I wish you good luck for the coming year.

Thanks,

[ruby-dev:22289] mswin32 optimize
  Tietew posted a patch by which mswin32-ruby is successfully
  built with the optimization option -Og. However, this patch
  works only with VC 7.0 and VC 7.1.

[ruby-dev:22325] Array.dup.new
  Akira Tanaka wrote that 'Array.dup.new' didn't work with ruby-1.8
  but it worked with ruby-1.6.
    % ruby -ve 'Array.dup.new'
    ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-22) [i686-linux]
    -e:1:in `new': allocator undefined for #<Class:0x401be394>
(NoMethodError)
        from -e:1
  This problem was fixed.

[ruby-dev:22329] [0x80000000].pack("U")
  Akira Tanaka wrote that the following message 'negative value'
  was strange.
    % ruby -e '[0x80000000].pack("U")'
    -e:1:in `pack': pack(U): negative value (ArgumentError)
    from -e:1
  Nakada proposed an idea as follows.
    $ ./ruby -e '[0x80000000].pack("U")'
    -e:1:in `pack': pack(U): value out of range (ArgumentError)
    from -e:1

[ruby-dev:22356] (OSX) TCPServer.open(hostname, 0)
  Masatoshi Seki informed us that TCPServer.open(xxxx,0) didn't
  work on OSX, but TCPServer(0) and TCPServer(xxxx,<non-zero>)
  worked fine. This problem was caused by strange behavior of
  getaddrinfo(3).

[ruby-dev:22366] `to_s': method `to_s' overridden (TypeError)
  Akira Tanaka asked why the following error was caused.
    % ruby -e '
      a = "a"
      class << a; self; end.class_eval {
        define_method(:to_s, a.method(:to_s))
      }
      a.to_s'
    -e:6:in `to_s': method `to_s' overridden (TypeError)
    from -e:6
  Matz answered that he forgot why he had added an explicit
  check. Nakada suggested that they had better do check in
  define_method, and posted a patch to realize his suggestion.
  Matz agreed with him but didn't merge his patch because he
  was not sure of behavior of the patch.

[ruby-dev:22367] sdbm: cannot insert after SPLTMAX attempts
  Akira Tanaka asked if the following error was expected.
    % rm ww.{dir,pag}; ruby -rsdbm -e '
      d = SDBM.open("ww")
      d["\373\221"] = "a" * 534
      d["\371\367"] = "a" * 477
      d.close'
    sdbm: cannot insert after SPLTMAX attempts.
    -e:4:in `[]=': sdbm_store failed (SDBMError)
        from -e:4
  Matz answered that the error depended on sdbm.

[ruby-dev:22371] [Oniguruma] Version 2.0.0
  Kosako informed us the release of Oniguruma 2.0.0. It is
  available at ftp.ruby-lang.org.

[ruby-dev:22389] patches for i386-os2-emx
  Norihide Shinagawa stood for a OS/2 maintainer and posted a
  patch list for OS/2 with EMX.