From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2003-03-20T00:00:54+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 19773-19824

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 04:23:11AM +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> rb_str2cstr() calls #to_str method on non-String object and
> returns its ptr but doesn't the result String itself.  So the
> object would be lost at next GC.  To solve this problem,
> StringValue() and StringValuePtr() macros were introduced.

Ah, that makes sense.  Thanks!

Paul