From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2007-10-11T02:23:06+09:00 Subject: Re: retain VALUE from C extension Hi, In message "Re: retain VALUE from C extension" on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:29:47 +0900, "Gaspard Bucher" writes: |How do I tell ruby to increment it's garbage collector if I want to |keep hold of a VALUE in a C extension. I'm not sure what you mean by 'increment' or 'retain', but rb_global_variable() may be the answer. See README.EXT. matz.