From: Nathan Baker Date: 2006-12-13T08:00:05+09:00 Subject: Re: C => Ruby plus TCP serialization using Marshal.dump/load Paul- You are correct--these data can be considered arbitrary binary data (I'm thinking along the lines of C structs and pointers). Does this approach handle the pointer issue? We were concerned that a malloc'd array of, say, int pointers would serialize as a reference rather than the actual array of ints. Thanks for the quick reply! Nathan