From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-06-02T07:47:41+09:00
Subject: Re: How can I pin a Ruby object in memory?

Lyle Johnson wrote:
> If you're asking whether Ruby will move the address of the Data object
> itself: I'm guessing that that's possible.

If ruby moved objects like that (whether T_DATA or T_OBJECT, T_STRING,
etc), it would be a disaster. Every VALUE that referred to the object
(in other words every reference to it in a variable, array, hash, etc.)
would become invalid, since the VALUE type is actually a pointer in
these cases. (I may be misunderstanding the question though...)

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