Feature #9894
Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) almost 6 years ago
Any comment on officially supporting this as part of the C API? ```diff diff --git a/README.EXT b/README.EXT index d66d6c5..dded850 100644 --- a/README.EXT +++ b/README.EXT @@ -1176,6 +1176,12 @@ void rb_global_variable(VALUE *var) Tells GC to protect these variables. +void rb_gc_register_mark_object(VALUE val) + + Tells GC to protect the object referenced by val. This requires less + memory to track than rb_global_variable, but may only be used if the C + variable never changes. + == Constant Definition void rb_define_const(VALUE klass, const char *name, VALUE val) :: ``` -- Eric Wong