From: Godot <garciamj@...>
Date: 2004-06-08T15:08:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Segfault on embedded ruby.

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:03:19 +0900, nobu.nokada wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> At Tue, 8 Jun 2004 12:24:31 +0900,
> Paul Brannan wrote in [ruby-talk:102734]:
>> > > int main ()
>> > > {
>> > >     ruby_init ();
>> >       VALUE dummy;
>> >       Init_stack(&dummy);
>> > >     ruby_init_loadpath ();
>> > >     dontCrash("puts 'test'");
>> > >     ruby_finalize();
>> > > }
>> 
>> ruby_init() calls Init_stack, so why should this be necessary?
> 
> To adjust the stack boundary.
> The stack frame inside Init_stack() called from ruby_init()
> would be placed at lower address than one of dontCrash() , so
> that `test' in it would be outside the region of GC target.

It works now :)   Thanks for all the help, I don't think I would've
come across that solution on my own. I'm still struggling to understand 
why 1.6.8-r10 didn't crash while 1.8* did, however.

-Godot