From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-04-05T03:40:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13497] Re: C extentions: having trouble with STR2CSTR

In article <tcmmmcivp2lk6e@corp.supernews.com>,
Lyle Johnson <ljohnson@resgen.com> wrote:
>> static VALUE m_RunWithTimeout(VALUE rStr)
>> {
>>    char* cStr;
>>    cStr = STR2CSTR(rStr);
>>    printf("%s",cStr);
>> }
>
>The first argument to a module function is always going to be the module
>object itself; so for this function (which you expect to take a single
>string argument) you really need to list two arguments, e.g.
>
>static VALUE m_RunWithTimeout(VALUE rModule, VALUE rStr)
>{
>   char* cStr;
>   cStr = STR2CSTR(rStr);
>   printf("%s",cStr);
>}
>
>Leave everything else the way you had it, and this should do the trick.
>
>

Thanks for the quick reply!  That worked.  I didn't realize that you had 
to do this for module functions - it's almost like how methods are 
defined in Perl, first argument is self.

Phil