From: Carter Cheng <cartercheng@...>
Date: 2011-09-03T19:20:51+09:00
Subject: Re: value for VALUE in C for ruby gems

Thanks both.

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>