From: Gaffer <gaffer@...>
Date: 2003-05-18T23:15:33+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby garbage collection

an interesting aside, is there any benefit to using ruby's ALLOC etc.
functions over new/delete? i notice you dont, cheers

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Strandgaard [mailto:0bz63fz3m1qt3001@sneakemail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 12:10 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: ruby garbage collection


On Sun, 18 May 2003 23:48:28 +0900, Gaffer wrote:

> so i didnt know you could override the singleton method new for a class,
to
> do the Data_Make_Struct,

Yeah its a bastard :-)


> so i was wrapping an outer 'husk' object with a member variable @data
which
> was pointing to a Data_Wrap_Struct around my c++ object created with new


Yes.. My alloc/free looks something like this (ruby-1.8.0)


void Free(Klass *p) {
	delete p;
}

VALUE Alloc(VALUE self) {
	Klass* p = new Klass();
	return Data_Wrap_Struct(self, 0, Free, p);
}

void KlassInit() {
	VALUE h = rb_define_class("Klass", rb_cObject);
	rb_define_alloc_func(h, Alloc);
}


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Simon Strandgaard