From: Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...>
Date: 2011-07-21T23:22:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:38339] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #5056] About 1.9 EOL

On Jul 21, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Benoit Daloze wrote:

> Hello,
> On 21 July 2011 02:55, SASADA Koichi <ko1@atdot.net> wrote:
>> I think 2.0 is good point to throw away some compatibility issues (e.g.
>> C APIs).  We need more time to discuss.



This is a good opportunity to eliminate dangerous C API features like RHASH, RHASH_TBL, RSTRING_PTR, etc. Right now these features encourage dangerous access to internal runtime structures and cause a *lot* of issues for native threads.

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