* array.c (rb_ary_fill): (compatibility) do not raise

	  ArgumentError on negative length.  This behaviour shall change
  	  in a future release.



git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/branches/ruby_1_8_6@17711 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

3 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1876bec3e9..2a32d764e8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Sun Jun 29 20:40:57 2008  URABE Shyouhei  <shyouhei@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* array.c (rb_ary_fill): (compatibility) do not raise
+	  ArgumentError on negative length.  This behaviour shall change
+	  in a future release.
+
 Sun Jun 29 20:06:45 2008  Tanaka Akira  <akr@fsij.org>
 
 	* time.c (time_timeval): fix rounding negative float.
diff --git a/array.c b/array.c
index 7f23940e43..1387269993 100644
--- a/array.c
+++ b/array.c
@@ -2272,6 +2272,9 @@ rb_ary_fill(argc, argv, ary)
 	break;
     }
     rb_ary_modify(ary);
+    if (len < 0) {
+        return ary;
+    }
     if (len > ARY_MAX_SIZE - beg) {
 	rb_raise(rb_eArgError, "argument too big");
     }
diff --git a/version.h b/version.h
index 1dfa4840b4..9fdfda7684 100644
--- a/version.h
+++ b/version.h
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #define RUBY_RELEASE_DATE "2008-06-29"
 #define RUBY_VERSION_CODE 186
 #define RUBY_RELEASE_CODE 20080629
-#define RUBY_PATCHLEVEL 253
+#define RUBY_PATCHLEVEL 254
 
 #define RUBY_VERSION_MAJOR 1
 #define RUBY_VERSION_MINOR 8