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teaspoon on Jan 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Never create Ruby strings longer than 23 character...

Ruby strings are mutable, so you need to be able to free s->data without freeing the RString itself.

ori_b on Jan 5, 2012 [–]

    s = realloc(s, sizeof(RString));

haileys on Jan 5, 2012 | [–]

MRI objects are not relocatable so that won't work if realloc has to move the structure in memory

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