From: timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)
Date: 2004-11-24T15:18:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby DL::Importable struct issue

In article <EYCdnZRN0fuN6z7cRVn-3g@rogers.com>, Kevin Howe wrote:
>Hi,
>
>The ruby182-14RC9.exe (one click installer) version of Ruby breaks some DL
>code in a gem of mine (tidy on rubyforge). The problem is with the first
>struct item which defines "byte* bp". I get the following error when I run
>the script at the bottom. If "byte*" is deliberately no longer supported,
>what would be a valid equivalent?
>
>(eval):2 in '[]': unsupported type 'p' (DL::DLTypeError)
>  from (eval):2:in 'bp'
>
>#-------
>require 'dl/import'
>require 'dl/struct'
>
>extend DL::Importable
>
># http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/api/struct__TidyBuffer.html
>TidyBuffer = struct [
>  "byte* bp",
>  "uint size",
>  "uint allocated",
>  "uint next"
>]
>
>struct = TidyBuffer.malloc
>puts struct.bp
>#-------

Try "char* bp" or "unsigned char* bp".