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Noxerus (D. G.)

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08/22/2010

08:11 AM Ruby Bug #3721: Unsigned formats broken in 1.9.2's unpack
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Thanks, the patch seems to fix it!
Perhaps it's worthwhile to extend the "make test" suite of self-tests to verify the expected behavior of the unpack method?
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08/20/2010

08:20 AM Ruby Bug #3721: Unsigned formats broken in 1.9.2's unpack
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Yes, 4294967295 is the expected result.

I've just tried the same code in a 32-bit build (ruby 1.9.2p0 (2010-08-18 revision 29036) [i386-mswin32_100]), and it also gives the correct result:
"\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF".unpack(?V) => ... Noxerus (D. G.)
07:59 AM Ruby Bug #3721 (Closed): Unsigned formats broken in 1.9.2's unpack
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When specifying the V format code, unpack should treat the four bytes as an unsigned long integer. As can be seen in the following example, it treats it as a signed integer instead:
"\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF".unpack(?V) => [-1]
The s... Noxerus (D. G.)

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