From: Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@...>
Date: 2011-09-02T18:48:49+09:00
Subject: Re: value for VALUE in C for ruby gems

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On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Carter Cheng <cartercheng@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was looking over some ruby gems and the documentation for creating
> these things. I was curious what the actual type of VALUE is?
>

There a several possible actual types, depending on the platform that ruby
is compiled on. Basically, a type that can hold a pointer or a long value.
For the details take a look at ruby/ruby.h and search for HAVE_UINTPTR_T.

Regards,
Ammar

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