From: djberg96@... (Daniel Berger)
Date: 2004-07-02T14:22:51+09:00
Subject: curious behavior with StringValuePtr()

Hi all,

Ruby 1.8.2 RC2
Windows 2000
VC++ 6.0

I was going to update all of my STR2CSTR() calls to StringValuePtr()
for one of my packages, when I noticed that I can't seem to pass it a
method without it raising a fuss.

This is the old snippet, which worked perfectly fine.

lpSourceName = (LPCTSTR)STR2CSTR(rb_iv_get(self,"@source"));

This snippet fails, however:

lpSourceName = (LPCTSTR)StringValuePtr(rb_iv_get(self,"@source"));

I get this error:

eventlog.c(554) : error C2102: '&' requires l-value
eventlog.c(554) : error C2198: 'rb_string_value_ptr' : too few actual
parameters

This behavior does not occur if I pass a plain value to StringValuePtr
instead of passing a function.  And no, the casting is not the issue
(I tried a snippet without it).

Any ideas?  Thanks.

Dan