From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2001-11-16T01:51:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25279] Re: GC question

This is a known problem with the 1.6.x series.  It should be fixed in 1.7.
Until then, do this:

#define rb_gc_mark(value) \
  ((void (*)(VALUE))(rb_gc_mark))(value)


On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Tony Smith wrote:

> Hi there!
>
> I'm trying to sort out the garbage collection in a C++ extension, and I keep
> getting these errors from gcc. Ruby is 1.6.4 on Linux.
>
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i586-linux-gnu/intern.h:188: too many arguments to function
> `void rb_gc_mark ()'
> clientuserruby.cc:401: at this point in file
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i586-linux-gnu/intern.h:188: too many arguments to function
> `void rb_gc_mark ()'
> clientuserruby.cc:402: at this point in file
>
> I'm passing a VALUE argument to rb_gc_mark() for each Ruby object my C++
> object holds. Is that right?
>
> >From digging in the source, it seems that rb_gc_mark actually takes a "void
> *" argument which doesn't agree with the prototype.
>
> Is this a bug? Or is there a trick to getting such code to compile.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tony
>