From: Steven Kah Hien Wong <steven@...>
Date: 2008-05-11T14:14:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Do strings from rb_str_new and friends need to be free'd?

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Ah, cool. Thanks, Matz!

-Steven

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>

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