Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:03162] FixNum => BigNum transition"
    on 00/06/07, Robert Feldt <feldt / ce.chalmers.se> writes:

|Any suggestions for an easy (and effecient?!) way to work with uint32's in
|Ruby?

I'm afraid there's no easy way to work with uint32 directly in Ruby.
How about wrapping everything using uint32 in an extension library?
C macro NUM2UINT() and NUM2ULONG() handle integer boudary checks.

Just a suggestion.

							matz.