From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2008-04-01T21:02:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Detaching free function from String in C API

Alex Fenton wrote:
> Is the same thing is possible with an in-built ruby String object, to
> set it so that the underlying char* contents will not be freed when the
> String is GC'd?

 Look at mmap (in RAA), when you write

  m = Mmap.new("aa")

 the object in `m' is in reality a String object and mmap make in
 sort that ruby will never free the char * content, otherwise it
 will crash.

Guy Decoux