From: "nagai (Hidetoshi Nagai)" Date: 2013-06-17T14:20:28+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:55524] [ruby-trunk - Bug #5199] ext/tk: RB_GC_GUARD seems to be needed in several places Issue #5199 has been updated by nagai (Hidetoshi Nagai). nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) wrote: > Quick patch. > > 2.0 has GC safe functions, rb_sprintf() with PRIsVALUE, rb_intern_str(), and so on. Nakada-san, please commit the patch. ---------------------------------------- Bug #5199: ext/tk: RB_GC_GUARD seems to be needed in several places https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5199#change-39990 Author: normalperson (Eric Wong) Status: Assigned Priority: Normal Assignee: nagai (Hidetoshi Nagai) Category: ext Target version: current: 2.1.0 ruby -v: ruby 1.9.4dev (2011-08-11 trunk 32931) [x86_64-linux] Backport: I noticed the following in ext/tk/tkutil/tkutil.c: rb_warning("fail to convert '%s' to string for Tk", RSTRING_PTR(rb_funcall(obj, rb_intern("inspect"), 0, 0))); id = rb_intern(RSTRING_PTR(rb_str_cat2(rb_str_new2("@"), str))); I don't use or know the Tk ext at all, but the above examples do not appear safe from a GC perspective. Compilers can optimize the original VALUE away entirely so GC can collect. RSTRING_PTR (being a macro,) may also evaluate its arguments multiple times. -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/