From: Nikolai Weibull <now@...>
Date: 2010-07-10T18:40:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:31175] Re: Why is there no standard way of creating a 	String from a char *?

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 15:47, Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

> (2010/07/09 22:24), Nikolai Weibull wrote:

>> So basically there is no way to wrap, for example,
>>
>> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/stable/GFile.html#g-file-load-contents
>>
>> efficiently. ��I���ll always have to copy the loaded contents into a new
>> Ruby String and then free the returned char * contents.

> This is absolutely true, because g_free() and ruby's xfree() are not
> guaranteed to share the same free() implementation. ��That can happen on
> Windows. ��Given g_file_load_contents()'s returning memory regions is stated to
> "be freed using g_free()", it should not be done by Ruby's.

OK, I���m convinced.  Bummer.

Thank you all for taking the time to answer my questions!