From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-11-23T23:49:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Modifying DATA_PTR - Is it safe?

Hi,

In message "Modifying DATA_PTR - Is it safe?"
    on 02/11/23, "Tim Hunter" <cyclists@nc.rr.com> writes:

|In a C extension, is it safe to change the value of the data element
|in struct RData via the DATA_PTR macro?
|
|By "safe," I mean, will it cause Ruby any problems? Will the DATA_PTR
|macro be supported in future releases? (I'm at 1.6.7.)

It will not cause any problem, if you process referenced C object
properly.  And DATA_PTR is available on 1.7 and will be on 1.8.

							matz.