From: Elias Athanasopoulos <elathan@...>
Date: 2004-02-11T00:55:34+09:00
Subject: ruby fixnums

Hello!

As I have understood Ruby fixnums are passed by value and
you can grab the value as an integer like:

    VALUE foo;
    int i = (int) (foo >> 1);

Is there any way to get an explicit reference of the 
value of the fixnum in C, without allocating new space, or using
a new integer pointer?

I.e. what &RFLOAT(foo)->value does.

Regards,
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