From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-07-14T17:28:26+09:00
Subject: Re: GC tweak

Hi,

In message "Re: GC tweak"
    on Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:02:18 +0900, Stefan Kaes <skaes@gmx.net> writes:

|>This is disallowed in C89.
|
|I'm a bit curious what exactly is disallowed? Is it the late declaration 
|of free_min_ptr? Or is it int min_slots_i = atoi(min_slots_ptr)? It's 
|been along time since I had to use a c89 compiler :-)

The former.  Late declaration is introduced by C99.

|But I was more interested to hear an opinion on the nature of the patch. 
|And whether something like that could be included in 1.8.3 and 1.9. Not 
|everyone has the chance to recompile in the environment in which his 
|server apps are runnning. And most ISPs are reluctant to apply patches, 
|which aren't official.

It's interesting.  I'm not yet sure how this work along with Ruby's
built-in security check.  Perhaps we should disallow GC configuration
by environment variables when we have a security level higher than 0.

							matz.