From: Christophe Poucet <christophe.poucet@...>
Date: 2005-10-04T23:51:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Compilation of ruby

Hello,

I've been making a lot of changes so that the basic ruby interpreter
will compile with C++.  Mostly I used some typecasting to bypass type
problems.  The brunt of the work was when  rb_define_method would take
a generalized method, which I solved.  There are still some issues,
however in regular expressions where I just cast to whatever type the
compiler told me (between unsigned char* and char*) though someone
should take a look into this.  I've also added extern "C" { ... } to
all the .c and .h files wherever it seemed that it would not cause
problem (yet again someone will have to look into this).

The problem is that I don't want to link with C++ code.  I want to
insert certain profiling templates straight into the ruby interpreter
to be able to measure certain parts of the interpreter.  That is why I
needed c++ compileable code.  I have not worked on the extensions, only
on the plain core and I'm getting a bug on array tests 37 and 38 which
I  will look into.

Would you be interested in this work in HEAD?

Christophe