From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg@...>
Date: 2005-03-11T02:51:15+09:00
Subject: Re: rb_raise and memory

George Ogata wrote:
> Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>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:
>>
>>|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.
> 
> 
> Won't ALLOCA_N work for this, or am I not following?

alloca memory is deallocated at the end of the scope, which is not a 
good thing if you expect to use it later...

-garrett