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authorttate <ttate@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2002-04-14 15:21:23 +0000
committerttate <ttate@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2002-04-14 15:21:23 +0000
commit66484faf1b48ac523628597e77a7758382a1764a (patch)
treea054a1c64ae38277decabd7e334dc2bd19074ef1 /ext/dl/doc/dl.txt
parentcd948e46002a8e7fb8ff906e18a92da549669d81 (diff)
Edit the documentation.
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@2373 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
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diff --git a/ext/dl/doc/dl.txt b/ext/dl/doc/dl.txt
index 88c8b2d776..c71de5179c 100644
--- a/ext/dl/doc/dl.txt
+++ b/ext/dl/doc/dl.txt
@@ -47,12 +47,17 @@ struct and union which are defined in dl/struct.rb as follows:
require "dl/struct"
module LIBC
extend DL::Importable
- Timeval = struct [ # define the timeval structure.
+ Timeval = struct [ # define the timeval structure.
"long tv_sec",
"long tv_uses",
]
end
- val = LIBC::Timeval.new # allocate the memory.
+ val = LIBC::Timeval.alloc # allocate the memory.
+
+The above example uses LIBC::Timeval.alloc, since we use LIBC::Timeval.new(ptr)
+to wrap the given PtrData object which is, for example, created by DL::malloc().
+DL::malloc() is a function to allocate a memory by using the C library function
+malloc().
DL::Importable module is very useful. However, we sometimes encounter a case
that we must directly use low-level functions such as dlsym(). In such case,