1 files changed, 18 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/spec/ruby/core/string/unpack/w_spec.rb b/spec/ruby/core/string/unpack/w_spec.rb
index 22f5980a46..cc9aecac9c 100644
--- a/spec/ruby/core/string/unpack/w_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/ruby/core/string/unpack/w_spec.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# -*- encoding: ascii-8bit -*-
-require File.expand_path('../../../../spec_helper', __FILE__)
-require File.expand_path('../../fixtures/classes', __FILE__)
-require File.expand_path('../shared/basic', __FILE__)
+# encoding: binary
+require_relative '../../../spec_helper'
+require_relative '../fixtures/classes'
+require_relative 'shared/basic'
 
 describe "String#unpack with directive 'w'" do
   it_behaves_like :string_unpack_basic, 'w'
@@ -15,11 +15,23 @@ describe "String#unpack with directive 'w'" do
     ].should be_computed_by(:unpack, "w")
   end
 
-  it "ignores NULL bytes between directives" do
-    "\x01\x02\x03".unpack("w\x00w").should == [1, 2]
+  it "raise ArgumentError for NULL bytes between directives" do
+    -> {
+      "\x01\x02\x03".unpack("w\x00w")
+    }.should.raise(ArgumentError, /unknown unpack directive/)
   end
 
   it "ignores spaces between directives" do
     "\x01\x02\x03".unpack("w w").should == [1, 2]
   end
 end
+
+describe "String#unpack with directive 'w*'" do
+
+  it "decodes BER-compressed integers" do
+    "\x01\x02\x03\x04".unpack("w*").should == [1, 2, 3, 4]
+    "\x00\xCE\x0F\x84\x80\x80\x80\x80\x80\x80\x80\x80\x00\x01\x00".unpack("w*").should == [0, 9999, 2**65, 1, 0]
+    "\x81\x80\x80\x80\x80\x80\x80\x80\x80\x00\x90\x80\x80\x80\x80\x80\x80\x80\x03\x01\x02".unpack("w*").should == [2**63, (2**60 + 3), 1, 2]
+  end
+
+end