From: mark.watson@... (Mark Watson)
Date: 2004-03-03T05:04:42+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FreeRIDE 0.6.0-1 -- a Windows Update

Lyle Johnson <lyle@knology.net> wrote in message news:<4043E5F2.3050406@knology.net>...
> 
> I haven't made any changes to FXRuby to try to accomodate the problem, 
> whatever it was (is). Is the fix then due to upgrading to Ruby 1.8.1?
>

Im not sure whether upgrading to Ruby 1.8.1 'fixed' the problem or if
it was the fact that I compiled it with visual c++ 7.1.  The 1.8.1
pragprog installer version of ruby doesnt seem to work.

I say 'fixed' because this seems like a really dodgy workaround :)

Also Lyle, I have a question.  Would mixing c++ runtimes cause
problems for ruby's garbage collector?  i.e. if an object is alloc'ed
in FXRuby with the vc++6 runtime then you could potentially get a
crash if ruby free's it with the vc++7 runtime.