From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-07-05T12:03:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17267] Re: extension and GC

HI,

In message "[ruby-talk:17254] extension and GC"
    on 01/07/05, Shan-leung Maverick WOO <maverick@cs.cmu.edu> writes:

|I am writing an extension X in C. It creates a new class which inherits from
|Hash. So in Init_X(), instead of passing rb_cObject to rb_define_class, I
|used rb_cHash. 

I don't think I can answer properly withough looking your extension
source.  But in general, 

  (1) override instance method "initialize", instead of overriding
      class method "new".

  (2) depends on when do you want to deallocate your memory, but
      global finalizer rb_set_end_proc() may help.  See ext/curses.c

							matz.