Class FFI::AutoPointer
In: lib/ffi/autopointer.rb
lib/ffi/autopointer.rb
Parent: Pointer

Methods

new   new   release   release  

Public Class methods

WARNING: passing a proc may cause your pointer to never be GC‘d, unless you‘re careful to avoid trapping a reference to the pointer in the proc. See the test specs for examples. WARNING: passing a block will cause your pointer to never be GC‘d. This is bad.

Please note that the safest, and therefore preferred, calling idiom is to pass a Method as the second parameter. Example usage:

  class PointerHelper
    def self.release(pointer)
      ...
    end
  end

  p = AutoPointer.new(other_pointer, PointerHelper.method(:release))

The above code will cause PointerHelper#release to be invoked at GC time.

The last calling idiom (only one parameter) is generally only going to be useful if you subclass AutoPointer, and override release(), which by default does nothing.

WARNING: passing a proc may cause your pointer to never be GC‘d, unless you‘re careful to avoid trapping a reference to the pointer in the proc. See the test specs for examples. WARNING: passing a block will cause your pointer to never be GC‘d. This is bad.

Please note that the safest, and therefore preferred, calling idiom is to pass a Method as the second parameter. Example usage:

  class PointerHelper
    def self.release(pointer)
      ...
    end
  end

  p = AutoPointer.new(other_pointer, PointerHelper.method(:release))

The above code will cause PointerHelper#release to be invoked at GC time.

The last calling idiom (only one parameter) is generally only going to be useful if you subclass AutoPointer, and override release(), which by default does nothing.

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