From: Iain Dooley <idoo4002@...>
Date: 2005-08-29T20:35:16+09:00
Subject: Re: catching segmentation faults from Ruby



ts wrote:
>>>>>>"I" == Iain Dooley <idoo4002@mail.usyd.edu.au> writes:
> 
> 
> I> but surely i can't call:
> 
> I> rb_protect(app.exec(),VALUE ?,RESULT ?);
> 
>   /* Something like this */
> 
>   static VALUE
>   call_exec_for_app(QApplication *app)
>   {
>       return app->exec();
>   }
> 
>   /* ... */
>   int status;
>   VALUE res;
>   /* ... */
>   
>   res = rb_protect(call_exec_for_app, (VALUE)&app, &status);
>   if (status) {
>      /* there is a ruby error */
>   }
>   /* ... */
> 

excellent!! i thought that rb_protect was only for ruby methods.

i'll try that out. thanks very much

iain