From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-08-02T09:38:40+09:00
Subject: Re: rb_raise with dynamic strings and GC

Hi,

At Sat, 2 Aug 2003 09:12:44 +0900,
Dan Janowski wrote:
> What will happen with errstr after the function returns since I did not 
> really use it as part of an object?
> Will errstr be found by the GC and cleaned up?

Yes, it is expected so.

> I could just use message with rb_raise, but I would rather not have a 
> malloc being done far away and the free responsibility to be after use 
> in the rb_raise. Is this a bad idea? Should I just use 
> rb_exc_raise(errstr)?

Not bad.  Or,

  errobj = rb_exc_new2(eMyError, message);
  free(message);
  rb_exc_raise(errobj);

# I guess you know that rb_exc_raise() expects an Exception
# instance, and it was just a typo.

-- 
Nobu Nakada