From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2003-01-24T00:44:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, C, and garbage collection

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:23:27PM +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> At Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:16:34 +0900,
> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> > For a workaround, you can declare a as
> > 
> >   volatile VALUE a;
> > 
> > to turn off too much optimization.
> 
> Or use StringValuePtr() provided for such cases.

I don't understand.  How would using StringValuePtr() help in these
cases?

Paul