From: Tony Smith <tony@...>
Date: 2001-11-16T02:12:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25282] Re: GC question

Thanks Paul!

On Thursday 15 November 2001 16:51,  Paul Brannan wrote:
> 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
> >
> 
>