On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 06:45, Wayne Meissner <wmeissner@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 30 March 2010 05:20, Evan Phoenix <evan@fallingsnow.net> wrote:

> >
> >
> > Does ruby-ffi not support the :strptr type? It's in the original FFI spec.

>
> No.  The most likely reason it was not included was because (at the
> time) there was no code using it and no tests.
>
> Its not hard to add - but any code using it will be incompatible with
> jruby 1.5 and below, so people are going to have to declare the return
> type as :pointer and extract the string anyway to be backwards
> compatible.

Thanks both, though it's not already in ruby-ffi is good to know about
strptr type. I was just confused that there was nothing like that (I
mean, only a string type that normally you are not gonna use due to
memory issues, it seem to me a bit weird).

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