Bug #12815: Integer#digits's error message different when base is Fixnum or Bignum

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: mrkn (Kenta Murata)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.4.0dev (2016-10-06 trunk 56364) [x86_64-linux]
• Backport: 2.1: DONTNEED, 2.2: DONTNEED, 2.3: DONTNEED

[znz (Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA)]

Is this intended?

% ruby -ve '60.upto(65){|n| 1.digits(-(1<<n)) rescue p $! }'
ruby 2.4.0dev (2016-10-06 trunk 56364) [x86_64-linux]
#<ArgumentError: invalid radix -1152921504606846976>
#<ArgumentError: invalid radix -2305843009213693952>
#<ArgumentError: invalid radix -4611686018427387904>
#<ArgumentError: negative radix>
#<ArgumentError: negative radix>
#<ArgumentError: negative radix>

[mrkn (Kenta Murata)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed

I've fixed this on r56554