From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-10-24T08:46:30+09:00
Subject: Re: C extension: "malloc" and "rb_raise"

Hi,

In message "Re: C extension: "malloc" and "rb_raise""
    on Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:43:32 +0900, Iņaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> writes:

|Hi, if I use "malloc" in a Ruby C function and then call to "rb_raise" (so the 
|program exists), will the allocated memory be released? (if not I get a memory 
|leak).

No.

|Perhaps Ruby havs a garbage collector for C?

Ruby GC only handles Ruby objects and memory regions pointed by them.

							matz.