From: Amichai Teumim <amichai@...>
Date: 2012-01-31T18:15:53+09:00
Subject: Re: RUBY_CRITICAL

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On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Garthy D <
garthy_lmkltybr@entropicsoftware.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Andrew and Tridib,
>
> On 31/01/12 13:21, andrew mcelroy wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Tridib Bandopadhyay<tridib04@gmail.**com<tridib04@gmail.com>
>> >wrote:
>>
>>  Hello all
>>>
>>> Can anyone tell me about RUBY_CRITICAL(). I want to know what this
>>> function is about and what it does and whats the reason of ruby calling
>>> this function?
>>>
>>
>> it's a ruby c function. There doesn't seem to be much in the way of
>> documentation. Why not pull the ruby source code and read what the
>> function
>> does?
>>
>
> Out of interest, I just did that, and in 1.9.2 at least, it is defined
> twice, with no comments, with the form:
>
> #define RUBY_CRITICAL(expr) do { expr; } while(0)
>
> And all references are in win32.c.
>
> Eep. :}
>
> I'd hazard a guess that it does absolutely nothing at all (apart from
> running the supplied expression/command) in the 1.9.2 release. Perhaps it
> is a relic that has since been disabled, or it is to cover code that has
> not yet been written? I'm now somewhat curious about this as well. Since
> one reference is in a backward compat header, I'd put my money is on the
> former.
>
> I wonder if somebody knows?
>
> Garth
>
>

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