From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2009-10-25T00:32:43+09:00
Subject: Re: C extension: "malloc" and "rb_raise"

El Sábado, 24 de Octubre de 2009, Bertram Scharpf escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Samstag, 24. Okt 2009, 08:55:11 +0900 schrieb Iñaki Baz Castillo:
> > El Sábado, 24 de Octubre de 2009, Yukihiro Matsumoto escribió:
> > > In message "Re: C extension: "malloc" and "rb_raise""
> > >
> > >     on Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:43:32 +0900, Iñaki Baz Castillo 
<ibc@aliax.net> writes:
> > > |Perhaps Ruby havs a garbage collector for C?
> > >
> > > Ruby GC only handles Ruby objects and memory regions pointed by them.
> >
> > Thanks for clarify it. So I must use free() before rb_raise().
> 
> It's surely a matter of taste but I think you should not. Mixing
> different allocation methods in one C source file will detain you
> from understanding your own code just one month later.

It's a small piece of C code, no more. Do you mean that I shouldn't use 
"malloc"/"free" in a Ruby C extension?

Regards.

-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>