From: Jim Cain <list@...>
Date: 2003-07-03T03:08:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby9i now available

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> At Thu, 3 Jul 2003 02:16:33 +0900,
> Daniel Berger wrote:
> 
>>>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.
>>
>>Ah, ok.  Ruby has some #define's (in version.h) you could use to see 
>>which version you're building against (if you're feeling up to it).
> 
> 
> It's not good idea to determin by release date or similar.
> Also, basically, rb_str2cstr() is obsolete.  You should use
> StringValuePtr() and RSTRING()->ptr/len, instead.

Excellent. That's just the kind of info I was looking for. I'll make the 
changes as I work on the code.

> And the source looks like C++ or C99, doesn't it?
> 

Funny you mention that. It's been years since I've coded in C. I used 
C++ extensively in 00-01, and neither of them since then, although I 
still play with C++ now and then. Between C and C++ I've only used C++ 
since 99, so I don't even remember all the picky little C++ things you 
can't do in standard C. Well, until the compiler complains about them. 
So I'm sure there's a lot of C++ influence in my C coding.