From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-03-10T08:59:40+09:00
Subject: Re: rb_raise and memory

Hi,

In message "Re: rb_raise and memory"
    on Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:25:49 +0900, Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org> writes:

|> It's leaking.  Thank you for finding it.
|
|No problem.  Is there a simple workaround (other than explicitly
|calling free before rb_raise), such as registering the address with the
|GC?  One would have to wrap it in a VALUE it seems, which isn't
|great...

There's no way for Ruby GC to handle non-VALUE data.  The only
solution I can think of is moving to Boehm GC, which might be an
overkill.

							matz.