[ ruby-Bugs-1236 ] DL: structure with member of pointer type gives error

Bugs item #1236, was opened at 2004-12-20 13:49
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Category: Standard Library
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jamis Buck (minam)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: DL: structure with member of pointer type gives error

Initial Comment:
Consider the following case which demonstrates the error:

  require 'dl/import'
  require 'dl/struct'

  module ErrorDemo
    extend DL::Importable
    PtrStruct = struct [ "void *die" ]
  end

  e = ErrorDemo::PtrStruct.malloc
  e.die

On the last line, when the 'die' member of the struct is accessed, the following error is produced:

  /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dl/struct.rb:34:in `[]': unsupported type 'p' (DL::DLTypeError)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dl/struct.rb:34:in `die'
        from test-case.rb:10

This used to work, so I suspect some recent change (perhaps rc3 of Ruby 1.8.2?) changed the supported structure member types.

Ruby version: ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-06) [i686-linux]
Platform: Linux 2.6.9-gentoo-r1

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