Re: [jruby-dev] JI behavioral change for JRUBY-4039

2009-10-09 Thread Nick Sieger
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > JRUBY-4039 demonstrates a breakage in JRuby where previously a Ruby > Array used as a List would coerce Fixnum contents only to Long > objects. In 1.4.0RC1, this broke because of a unification of some > coercion logic...the merged logi

[jruby-dev] JI behavioral change for JRUBY-4039

2009-10-07 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
JRUBY-4039 demonstrates a breakage in JRuby where previously a Ruby Array used as a List would coerce Fixnum contents only to Long objects. In 1.4.0RC1, this broke because of a unification of some coercion logic...the merged logic tried to coerce Fixnum to the smallest-possible Java numeric type wh