Subject:
Re: [ruby-ffi] Re: segfault on windows MRI but not windows JRuby
From:
Wayne Meissner
Date:
12/4/09 2:31 PM
To:
ruby-ffi@googlegroups.com

2009/12/5 Jon <jon.forums@gmail.com>:
> Fixed, thank you. I should also update all samples to check for null pointers from calloc (and nil from MemoryPointer.new ??).

You need to check return values from calloc/malloc (just like any
other C function), but MemoryPointer.new will throw NoMemError if it
fails.