Bug #17186: Integer overflow in "chr" error message (out of char range)

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.7.1p83 (2020-03-31 revision a0c7c23c9c) [x86_64-darwin19]
• Backport: 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN, 2.7: UNKNOWN

[semaperepelitsa (Simon Perepelitsa)]

Example:

irb(main):001:0> 300_000_000.chr
RangeError (300000000 out of char range)
irb(main):002:0> 3_000_000_000.chr
RangeError (-1294967296 out of char range)
irb(main):003:0> 30_000_000_000.chr
RangeError (30000000000 out of char range)

[peterzhu2118 (Peter Zhu)]

Hey Semyon. Thanks for reporting the bug. I PR'd a patch that should fix the issue: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/3602. Let me know how it looks!

[semaperepelitsa (Simon Perepelitsa)]

Looks great, thanks!

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Fixed in f7bd9f075030e5fa876320c1624a80685a636e82