From: Jim Cain <list@...>
Date: 2003-07-03T02:01:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby9i now available

Daniel Berger wrote:

> Quick followup - it built fine with 1.6.8 but wasn't as happy with 1.8 
> (2003-06-14).  Here's the result of the make command:
> 
>  >make
> 
>  >make
> gcc -fPIC -I/opt/oracle/rdbms/demo  -I/opt/oracle/rdbms/public -I. 
> -I/opt/lib/ruby/1.8/sparc-solaris2.9 
> -I/opt/lib/ruby/1.8/sparc-solaris2.9 -I. -DHAVE_OCI_H  -c baseinterval.c
> baseinterval.c: In function `biv_initialize':
> baseinterval.c:31: warning: passing arg 2 of `rb_str2cstr' from 
> incompatible pointer type
> [more of the same warnings...]
> Despite the warnings, a small test script worked ok.  Just thought I'd 
> point it out in case it leads to bigger problems down the road.

This is because in 1.8 rb_str2cstr(VALUE, int*) has changed to 
rb_str2cstr(VALUE, long*), and I've used ints for all my lengths.