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Re:Never create Ruby strings longer than 23 characters by bhousel on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @03:51PM (#3425842)
Here's the code: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/include/ruby/ruby.h#...

It looks like uintptr_t support is there, just disabled for now.

Re:Never create Ruby strings longer than 23 characters by archangel_one on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @04:01PM (#3425877)
Thanks - the fallback to long long explains it for me.