From: "Asbjørn Reglund Thorsen" <asbjoert@...>
Date: 2005-01-15T21:10:20+09:00
Subject: [n00b] Garbage collection, Ruby C++ and SWIG

I`m having trouble with an interface to a c++ library. It seems like 
Ruby`s GC is collecting objects that it shouldn`t. I have read the 
SWIG-Ruby documentation on the matter, but I am unsure of where to put the 
markfunc , and how to get it to interact with my program.

My interface file	: mHeat1.i
My Ruby code		: run.rb

require 'mHeat1'

menu = MHeat1::MenuSystem.new
menu.init("Ruby Interface", "This is so cool !")
heat = MHeat1::Heat1.new
heat.define(menu)
heat.scan
heat.solveProblem
heat.resultReport

The problem is the MenuSystem, I found out by using gdb:
gdb ruby
(gdb)run run.rb

...

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 1345)]
0x00000089 in ?? ()
(gdb) where
#0  0x00000089 in ?? ()
#1  0x40388c19 in free_MenuSystem () from ./mHeat1.so
#2  0x0806f636 in rb_gc_call_finalizer_at_exit () at gc.c:1858
#3  0x08053e34 in ruby_finalize_1 () at eval.c:1418
#4  0x08053f43 in ruby_cleanup (ex=0) at eval.c:1453
#5  0x08054081 in ruby_stop (ex=135573240) at eval.c:1484
#6  0x080540ef in ruby_run () at eval.c:1505
#7  0x08052245 in main (argc=135573240, argv=0x814aef8, envp=0xbffff020)
     at main.c:46