From: Kero <kero@...>
Date: 2004-01-14T04:11:36+09:00
Subject: Bug: unpack+pack with Bignum/Fixnum conflict (ruby 1.8.1)

Hi,

Receiving a binary 32-bits unsigned integer over a socket, I unpack it,
and later on pack to send back.

This works fine with ruby 1.8.0, but I got a RangeError stating the Bignum
is too big to be converted to `int'. We're talking high values here, the
one I saw where it went wrong was above 3 billion.

I would suggest adding a couple of checks to the testsuite:
 - [MAXINT].pack("i")  => should work
 - [MAXINT+1].pack("i")  => RangeError
and the same for unsigned flavours, shorts, longs, chars.

Bye,
Kero.

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