From: Sylvester Keil <sylvester.keil@...>
Date: 2011-12-05T18:54:56+09:00
Subject: Re: [Ruby C] Using DATA_PTR in multiple methods


On Dec 5, 2011, at 12:38 AM, Hans Mackowiak wrote:

> your alloc method does not create an object, change
>  TSK_IMG_INFO *ptr;
> to
>  TSK_IMG_INFO *ptr = new TSK_IMG_INFO;

Is this a C++ extensions? I would be careful mixing new/delete and Ruby's x-allocators. Why would you do that here? Would it not be better to use xmalloc and Data_Wrap_Struct?