From: Andrew Dalke <dalke@...>
Date: 2001-05-05T12:11:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14698] Re: interfaces to some existing C/C++ code?

Hello,

My previous post:
>[Synopsis: a C library I work with uses opaque integer handles to
>refer to internal toolkit objects.  It also requires correct
>deallocation order for some of the objects.  I can write a
>wrapper layer for the C implementation of Python to have it do the
>correct automatic garbage collection, but can't figure out how to
>use Ruby for the same task, because finalization order isn't
>guaranteed and because it assumes C extension types are always
>through pointers.]

I sent this post a few days ago but haven't seen a response
yet.  Am I missing someone's reply?  Or is there something I can
do to restate my question in a way to make it more likely to
elicit a response?

The same is true for my question on how well Ruby's threading
mechanism interoperates with native threading packages like
pthreads.  (That thread is titled "interfaces to some existing
pthread code.")

Sincerely,
                    Andrew Dalke
                    dalke@acm.org