Class: Fixnum

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/rake/ext/fixnum.rb

Overview

– Extensions to fixnum to define some constants missing from Ruby itself

Constant Summary collapse

MAX =

future versions of Ruby may end up defining this constant in a more portable way, as documented by Matz himself in:

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7517

… but until such time, we define the constant ourselves

(2**(0.size * 8 - 2) - 1)