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Michael Daines

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Oct 28, 2005, 1:19:19 PM10/28/05
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Hello,

I keep getting strange intermittent errors in various places with
ruby. At present, I haven't been able to identify when this happens
or really when it started happening. (Though I think it may have
something to do with installing 1.8.3, then not wanting to deal with
the early incompatibilities with Ruby on Rails, and then removing
that, and installing 1.8.2 again.)

The errors look like this:

undefined method `include?' for -517611318:Fixnum

It always happens with the number -517611318, and I can't reproduce
it at will. The only reference to this I can find on the internet is
someone else's page that was indexed by google and had the same
error. See this search:

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=ruby+%
22-517611318:Fixnum%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Does anyone know what to do about this? And what is the significance
of -517611318?


-- Michael Daines


mathew

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Oct 28, 2005, 4:22:12 PM10/28/05
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Michael Daines wrote:
> The errors look like this:
>
> undefined method `include?' for -517611318:Fixnum
>
> It always happens with the number -517611318, and I can't reproduce it
> at will.

Can you locate where the error is occurring in the code?

> Does anyone know what to do about this? And what is the significance of
> -517611318?

Nothing obviously significant about it. It's not like it's 1383424633 or
something.


mathew
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Jeremy Kemper

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Oct 28, 2005, 4:34:45 PM10/28/05
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On Oct 28, 2005, at 1:27 PM, mathew wrote:
> Michael Daines wrote:
>> The errors look like this:
>> undefined method `include?' for -517611318:Fixnum
>> It always happens with the number -517611318, and I can't
>> reproduce it at will.
>
> Can you locate where the error is occurring in the code?
>
>> Does anyone know what to do about this? And what is the
>> significance of -517611318?
>
> Nothing obviously significant about it. It's not like it's
> 1383424633 or something.

I used to get the exact same error until I moved to 1.8.3. It was
intermittent, impossible to track down, and always involved a bad
method call on -517611318. Very strange.

jeremy
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Eric Hodel

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Oct 28, 2005, 4:38:05 PM10/28/05
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What is your exact ruby version?

ruby -v

What C extensions do you have loaded?

$".reject { |f| f =~ /.rb$/ }

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Michael Daines

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Oct 28, 2005, 9:16:28 PM10/28/05
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> What is your exact ruby version?
>
> ruby -v

ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.2.0]


> What C extensions do you have loaded?
>
> $".reject { |f| f =~ /.rb$/ }

["readline.bundle"]

H.Yamamoto

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Oct 29, 2005, 4:47:07 AM10/29/05
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Michael Daines <michael...@gmail.com> wrote:
(2005/10/29 10:16)

>[powerpc-darwin8.2.0]

Is it 64bit machine?

Bill Kelly

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Feb 20, 2006, 10:38:06 PM2/20/06
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Hi,

From: "Michael Daines" <michael...@gmail.com>
>
> I keep getting strange intermittent errors in various places with
> ruby. At present, I haven't been able to identify when this happens
> or really when it started happening. (Though I think it may have
> something to do with installing 1.8.3, then not wanting to deal with
> the early incompatibilities with Ruby on Rails, and then removing
> that, and installing 1.8.2 again.)
>
> The errors look like this:
>
> undefined method `include?' for -517611318:Fixnum
>
> It always happens with the number -517611318, and I can't reproduce
> it at will. The only reference to this I can find on the internet is
> someone else's page that was indexed by google and had the same
> error. See this search:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=ruby+%22-517611318:Fixnum%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Anyone know whether this is still an issue? I see blog posts
about it as recently as a month ago, but I *thought* I recalled
some mention of it being fixed recently.

I'd love to know if this was ever resolved. I'm currently
building 1.8.4 on OS X to embed into our C++ application, and
I'd like to build with whatever compiler version and/or patches
are needed to avoid this problem.

Thanks!

Bill


Eric Hodel

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Feb 21, 2006, 5:52:59 PM2/21/06
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On Feb 20, 2006, at 7:43 PM, Kent Sibilev wrote:

> The solution was to switch back to gcc 3.3

No, the problem was much, much less prevalent on gcc 3.3. The
problem has been reported with gcc 3.3 as well.

> I'm not sure that it was fixed for gcc 4.0

The root problem might be [ruby-core:7305].

The version of GCC merely tickles whatever the real bug is.

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Bill Kelly

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Feb 21, 2006, 6:14:21 PM2/21/06
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From: "Eric Hodel" <drb...@segment7.net>

Ah... rats, thanks.

As a followup, then: Has this ever been seen on a non-ppc
architecture build?


Thanks,

Bill


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