From: Jeff Davis <ruby@...>
Date: 2008-07-08T15:02:58+09:00
Subject: Re: mysterious memory corruption, very confused

On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 01:36 +0900, Tim Pease wrote:
> I am wondering why the strings (returned from rb_obj_as_string) will  
> be garbage collected but the array will not be garbage collected? Both  
> have the same local scope, and they are not referenced by any other  
> ruby object.
> 

Thanks for mentioning that, I had the same question.

Also, what *exactly* can I do between:
  x = rb_obj_as_string(y)
and a statement that makes "x" safe (e.g. stores a reference in some
other value that's safe from collection)?

In other words, what ruby routines might invoke the garbage collector,
and thus possibly destroy any un-saved objects that I might have?

Regards,
	Jeff Davis