From: Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@...>
Date: 2010-10-27T22:35:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Sizes 1.0 released

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Colin Mackenzie iv
<sinisterchipmunk@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just released a new gem called "sizes".
>
> This is a very simple gem that exposes "sizeof" to Ruby to enable
> checking size of primitive types like :float, :unsigned_int, and so
> forth. I needed this for a parser I was writing, (I didn't feel like
> writing the whole thing in C), couldn't find a way to do it without an
> extension, and saw no reason not to publish the code afterward. :)
>
> I hope I didn't just reinvent something that already exists in core Ruby
> -- but I couldn't find it if it does, no matter how hard I Googled.
>
> Documentation and source code:
> http://github.com/sinisterchipmunk/sizes
>
> -Colin MacKenzie IV
> http://thoughtsincomputation.com

Cool. It would be nice to add the C99 type names, like int8, uint32, etc..

Cheers,
Ammar