From: snacktime <snacktime@...>
Date: 2006-09-19T04:14:48+09:00
Subject: Re: C extension question

> Better to wrap it as a  data type in Ruby, which gives you a ruby VALUE
> which references the native data. There's a simple macro to grab the
> original pointer given the VALUE.
>
> DEC Alpha doesn't necessarily have sizeof(int) == sizeof(void *), so
> please don't assume so. I hate fixing code that does that. ;-)
>
> Aria (A kerberos user, too!)

Well I'll do the grunt work and then when I release it I'll accept
patches from those with more C experience than I have.  I actually
can't remember if I ever wrote a C program before, but I've been
meaning to learn it so I figured this was as good a project as any
since we have some use for kerberos bindings.