On May 7, 10:29 pm, Wayne Meissner <wmeiss...@gmail.com> wrote:

> You can't get a pointer to a String, since thats not portable (i.e. not
> possible on JRuby).

So what happens when you pass a String to a function which takes a
char* argument?

Does FFI copy the string into a temporary buffer behind-the-scenes,
and then copy it back again afterwards?