Feature #13252
Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) over 7 years ago
Hi, I'd like to have a C API that allows me to create String objects without copying the underlying `char *`. char *. Basically a C API similar to the `rb_str_new_static`, rb_str_new_static*, but have the GC free the underlying `char *` char * when the object dies. The use case is that at work we have C libraries that allocate `char *` char * and we want to pass those to Ruby land without copying the buffer. Here is an example of what we're doing now: https://github.com/arthurnn/memcached/commit/1886546944b420dc6953096ba1f5eae772001e31#diff-f508f9b8263ea397534b2b3f8efed987R147 I'd like it if there was a public API for doing something like this. Thank you! P.S. I am sure I can't be the first to ask for this, but I couldn't find a similar issue in RedMine, so if this has been answered I apologize. P.P.S. I've added a patch for kind of what I want.