From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-01-24T01:52:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, C, and garbage collection

Hi,

In message "Re: Ruby, C, and garbage collection"
    on 03/01/24, Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:

|> Or use StringValuePtr() provided for such cases.
|
|I don't understand.  How would using StringValuePtr() help in these
|cases?

The macro StringValuePtr() uses the variable's address internally, so
that the variable will not be optimized out before function
termination.

							matz.