Indeed, looks like a bug.  That should not be neccessary at all - that
struct should pack naturally.

A couple of things:

1) What OS/cpu is this on?
2) Can you try it on JRuby?
3) Can you try adding 'pack 1' before the layout line?


On 4 November 2010 08:08, Qwerty <qwerty123451910@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I found a way around the problems I was having. Any field bigger than
> 8 bits I declare as [:uchar,x bytes]. Feels like an ugly hack to get
> around what seems to be a pretty nasty bug