From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-05-10T12:36:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Do strings from rb_str_new and friends need to be free'd?

Hi,

In message "Re: Do strings from rb_str_new and friends need to be free'd?"
    on Sat, 10 May 2008 12:21:57 +0900, "Steven Kah Hien Wong" <steven@zensaki.com> writes:

|I have some C native code that calls a logging class written in Ruby. To
|pass the message string to the Ruby class, I am creating a string with
|rb_str_new2 and then passing its VALUE to rb_funcall. I am wondering if I
|need to do any clean-up for the string, or will Ruby handle this for me?

The latter.  You don't have to (and you shouldn't) free string
objects.

							matz.