From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-03-25T13:03:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Writing a new method in C for a subclass

Hi,

In message "Re: Writing a new method in C for a subclass"
    on 03/03/25, David Landrith <dlandrith@mac.com> writes:

|Unfortunately, I am using 1.6.8.  How stable is 1.8?

Fairly stable for daily matters.  I'm always using 1.8.0 for my
works.  And you will see 1.8.0 final release on somewhere in April.

If you need to stil to 1.6.x, you need to copy the function below to
your extension.

static VALUE
ary_alloc(klass)
    VALUE klass;
{
    NEWOBJ(ary, struct RArray);
    OBJSETUP(ary, klass, T_ARRAY);

    ary->len = 0;
    ary->ptr = 0;
    ary->aux.capa = 0;

    return (VALUE)ary;
}

then call ary_alloc(YourArraySubclass) to get an empty instance.

							matz.