* prec.c (prec_prec_f): documentation patch from

<gerardo.santana at gmail.com>.  [ruby-core:07689]

* bignum.c (rb_big_pow): second operand may be too big even if
  it's a Fixnum.  [ruby-talk:187984]

* README.EXT: update symbol description.  [ruby-talk:188104]

* COPYING: explicitly note GPLv2.  [ruby-talk:187922]


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/branches/ruby_1_8@10088 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

COPYING

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Ruby is copyrighted free software by Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.jp>.
 You can redistribute it and/or modify it under either the terms of the GPL
-(see the file GPL), or the conditions below:
+version 2 (see the file GPL), or the conditions below:
 
   1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the
      software without restriction, provided that you duplicate all of the

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+Mon Apr 10 01:03:10 2006  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* prec.c (prec_prec_f): documentation patch from
+	  <gerardo.santana at gmail.com>.  [ruby-core:07689]
+
+Sat Apr  8 02:34:34 2006  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* bignum.c (rb_big_pow): second operand may be too big even if
+	  it's a Fixnum.  [ruby-talk:187984]
+
+Sat Apr  8 02:12:38 2006  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* README.EXT: update symbol description.  [ruby-talk:188104]
+
+Thu Apr  6 23:28:47 2006  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* COPYING: explicitly note GPLv2.  [ruby-talk:187922]
+
 Thu Apr  6 11:18:37 2006  Hidetoshi NAGAI  <nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp>
 
 	* ext/tk/lib/tk/panedwindow.rb: lack of arguments. [ruby-core:7681]

README.EXT

@@ -330,17 +330,30 @@ of the innermost method (which is defined by Ruby) can be accessed.
 
 2.2.2 ID or Symbol
 
-You can invoke methods directly, without parsing the string.  First I
-need to explain about symbols (whose data type is ID).  ID is the
-integer number to represent Ruby's identifiers such as variable names.
-It can be accessed from Ruby in the form:
+You can invoke methods directly, without parsing the string.  First I need
+to explain about ID.  ID is the integer number to represent Ruby's
+identifiers such as variable names.  The Ruby data type corresponding to ID
+is Symbol.  It can be accessed from Ruby in the form:
 
  :Identifier
 
-You can get the symbol value from a string within C code by using
+You can get the ID value from a string within C code by using
 
   rb_intern(const char *name)
 
+You can retrieve ID from Ruby object (Symbol or String) given as an
+argument by using
+
+  rb_to_id(VALUE symbol)
+
+You can convert C ID to Ruby Symbol by using
+
+  VALUE ID2SYM(ID id)
+
+and to convert Ruby Symbol object to ID, use
+
+  ID SYM2ID(VALUE symbol)
+
 2.2.3 Invoke Ruby method from C
 
 To invoke methods directly, you can use the function below

README.EXT.ja

@@ -380,7 +380,8 @@ C
 す．その前に，Rubyインタプリタ内でメソッドや変数名を指定する
 時に使われているIDについて説明しておきましょう．
 
-IDとは変数名，メソッド名を表す整数です．Rubyの中では
+IDとは変数名，メソッド名を表す整数です．RubyではIDに対応する
+オブジェクトとしてシンボル(Symbol)があり，
 
  :識別子
 
@@ -393,6 +394,14 @@ ID
 
   rb_to_id(VALUE symbol)
 
+IDからシンボルを得るためには以下のマクロを使います．
+
+  VALUE ID2SYM(ID id)
+
+シンボルからIDを得るためには以下のマクロを使います．
+
+  ID SYM2ID(VALUE symbol)
+
 2.2.3 CからRubyのメソッドを呼び出す
 
 Cから文字列を経由せずにRubyのメソッドを呼び出すためには以下

bignum.c

@@ -1606,6 +1606,11 @@ rb_big_pow(x, y)
 	if (yy > 0) {
 	    VALUE z = x;
 
+	    if (RBIGNUM(x)->len * SIZEOF_BDIGITS * yy > 1024*1024) {
+		rb_warn("in a**b, b may be too big");
+		d = (double)yy;
+		break;
+	    }
 	    for (;;) {
 		yy -= 1;
 		if (yy == 0) break;

prec.c

@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ prec_prec_i(x)
 
 /*
  *  call-seq:
- *    num.prec_f  =>  Integer
+ *    num.prec_f  =>  Float
  *
- *  Returns an +Float+ converted from _num_. It is equivalent 
+ *  Returns a +Float+ converted from _num_. It is equivalent 
  *  to <code>prec(Float)</code>.
  */