From: nagachika00@...
Date: 2014-07-03T03:30:18+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:63534] [ruby-trunk - Feature #9893] [Closed] [RFC] README.EXT: document rb_gc_register_mark_object

Issue #9893 has been updated by Tomoyuki Chikanaga.

Status changed from Assigned to Closed

sorry for noise. This is duplicated ticket (#9894)

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Feature #9893: [RFC] README.EXT: document rb_gc_register_mark_object
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9893#change-47582

* Author: Eric Wong
* Status: Closed
* Priority: Low
* Assignee: Koichi Sasada
* Category: doc
* Target version: current: 2.2.0
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ref [ruby-core:62862]

Any comment on officially supporting this as part of the C API?

diff --git a/README.EXT b/README.EXT
index d66d6c5..dded850 100644
--- a/README.EXT
+++ b/README.EXT
@@ -1176,6 +1176,12 @@ void rb_global_variable(VALUE *var)

   Tells GC to protect these variables.

+void rb_gc_register_mark_object(VALUE val)
+
+  Tells GC to protect the object referenced by val.  This requires less
+  memory to track than rb_global_variable, but may only be used if the C
 == Constant Definition

 void rb_define_const(VALUE klass, const char *name, VALUE val) ::




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