[#55222] [ruby-trunk - Feature #8468][Feedback] Remove $SAFE — "shugo (Shugo Maeda)" <redmine@...>

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[#55260] [ruby-trunk - Feature #8478][Open] The hash returned by Enumerable#group_by should have an empty array for its default value — "phiggins (Pete Higgins)" <pete@...>

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[#55276] Re: [ruby-changes:28951] zzak:r41003 (trunk): * process.c: Improve Process::exec documentation — Tanaka Akira <akr@...>

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[#55306] [ruby-trunk - Feature #8490][Open] Bring ActiveSupport Enumerable#index_by to core — "rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)" <rr.rosas@...>

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[#55330] [ruby-trunk - Feature #8499][Assigned] Importing Hash#slice, Hash#slice!, Hash#except, and Hash#except! from ActiveSupport — "mrkn (Kenta Murata)" <muraken@...>

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[#55391] [ruby-trunk - Bug #8507][Open] Keyword splat does not convert arg to Hash — "stephencelis (Stephen Celis)" <stephen.celis@...>

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[#55393] [ruby-trunk - Bug #8508][Open] Invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError) in win32/registry.rb — "thasmo (Thomas Deinhamer)" <thasmo@...>

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[#55528] [ruby-trunk - Bug #8538][Open] c method not pushed into the callstack when called, but popped when returned — deivid (David Rodríguez) <deivid.rodriguez@...>

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[#55557] [ruby-trunk - misc #8543][Open] rb_iseq_load — "alvoskov (Alexey Voskov)" <alvoskov@...>

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[#55558] [ruby-trunk - Feature #8544][Open] OpenURI should open 'file://' URIs — "silasdavis (Silas Davis)" <ruby-lang@...>

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[#55580] [CommonRuby - Feature #8556][Open] MutexedDelegator as a trivial way to make an object thread-safe — "headius (Charles Nutter)" <headius@...>

19 messages 2013/06/21

[#55596] [ruby-trunk - Feature #8563][Open] Instance variable arguments — "sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada)" <sawadatsuyoshi@...>

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[#55638] [CommonRuby - Feature #8568][Open] Introduce RbConfig value for native word size, to avoid Fixnum#size use — "headius (Charles Nutter)" <headius@...>

18 messages 2013/06/24

[#55678] [ruby-trunk - Feature #8572][Open] Fiber should be a Enumerable — "mattn (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)" <mattn.jp@...>

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[#55699] [ruby-trunk - Feature #8579][Open] Frozen string syntax — "charliesome (Charlie Somerville)" <charliesome@...>

20 messages 2013/06/29

[#55708] [ruby-trunk - Bug #8584][Assigned] Remove curses — "shugo (Shugo Maeda)" <redmine@...>

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[ruby-core:55642] [CommonRuby - Feature #8568] Introduce RbConfig value for native word size, to avoid Fixnum#size use

From: "headius (Charles Nutter)" <headius@...>
Date: 2013-06-25 03:50:55 UTC
List: ruby-core #55642
Issue #8568 has been updated by headius (Charles Nutter).


Size of a pointer is probably what I'm looking for, since that's usually what people will be using it for. However, implementations that can't give out real pointers can't support pack("p"), so that's not a portable option either.

So... RbConfig::CONFIG['pointer_size'] and some constant?
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Feature #8568: Introduce RbConfig value for native word size, to avoid Fixnum#size use
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8568#change-40126

Author: headius (Charles Nutter)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
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Category: 
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Fixnum#size is not really useful to represent native word size across all platforms and implementations. On JRuby, for example, our Fixnum is always represented as a 64-bit Java "long" value, regardless of the underlying native platform. There may be other implementations that fix Fixnum's size to a specific bit width as well. Therefore, using Fixnum#size to determine the size of a word on the underlying native platform is not reliable.

I propose two additions to Ruby:

1. RbConfig value "word_size" for native word size. This could reflect bit size (32, 64) or byte size (4, 8).

2. A constant, somewhere in Ruby, to provide access to this value more directly. I'm not sure where this should go. ObjectSpace::WORD_SIZE?


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