From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-12-04T12:20:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Redefining rb_str_init()

Daniel Berger wrote:
...
> I take it there's a bunch of setup happening within the interpreter that 
> makes a lot of calls to str_alloc() before the interpeter ever runs? 
> That, or I've messed something up.

Strings like this...

$ RUBYLIB='' RUBYOPT='' ruby -e 'a=[];ObjectSpace.each_object(String) 
{|s| a<<s}; puts a'
a=[];ObjectSpace.each_object(String) {|s| a<<s}; puts a
.
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-linux
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8

-e
a=[];ObjectSpace.each_object(String) {|s| a<<s}; puts a
ruby
i686-linux
2005-12-24
1.8.4
failed to allocate memory
stack level too deep
exception reentered
Process::Sys
.
. (snip)
.
Errno::ESRCH
Errno::ENOENT
Errno::EPERM
Errno
NameError::message
NameError

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