El Domingo, 25 de Octubre de 2009, Bertram Scharpf escribi
> Hi,
> 
> Am Sonntag, 25. Okt 2009, 00:32:43 +0900 schrieb Iñáki Baz Castillo:
> > El SáÃado, 24 de Octubre de 2009, Bertram Scharpf escribi
> >
> > It's a small piece of C code, no more. Do you mean that I shouldn't use
> > "malloc"/"free" in a Ruby C extension?
> 
> README.EXT recommends to allocate space by the ALLOC() macro which
> calls Ruby's xmalloc(). I cannot find an xfree() call there; I
> admit I do not understand that.

Note that I use "malloc" jsut for pure C usage, this is, I don't allocate 
memory for Ruby objects and so...

Anyhow, I've read this interesting mail (from 2002 however) in which the 
author recommends to use "malloc/free" rather tahn ALLOW:
  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/47669

Regards.


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