Berger, Daniel wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andre Ben Hamou [mailto:andre / bluetheta.com] 
>> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:47 AM
>> To: ruby-core / ruby-lang.org
>> Subject: Unpack Endian Bug
>>
>>
>> Hi everybody (annoyingly enthusiastic first post approaching),
>>
>> Please smack me if this is the wrong list on which to discuss this  
>> issue but I've found an interesting little (no pun intended) endian  
>> bug in String#unpack.
>>
>> Try this on a Mac running tiger ...
> 
> Presumably this is the same issue that was discussed in
> ruby-talk:164018.  Short answer: it's a bug in the Ruby that comes with
> Tiger.  Rebuild from scratch or use darwinports.

Or Fink, which is now at 1.8.3.

http://fink.sourceforge.net/

Regards,
Blair

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