* test/dl/test_dl2.rb (**) testing malloc and realloc

* ext/dl/dl.c (**) adding documentation

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@25605 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ext/dl/dl.c b/ext/dl/dl.c
index 6bef7bb326..beaed84393 100644
--- a/ext/dl/dl.c
+++ b/ext/dl/dl.c
@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ rb_dl_dlopen(int argc, VALUE argv[], VALUE self)
     return rb_class_new_instance(argc, argv, rb_cDLHandle);
 }
 
+/*
+ * call-seq: DL.malloc
+ *
+ * Allocate +size+ bytes of memory and return the integer memory address
+ * for the allocated memory.
+ */
 VALUE
 rb_dl_malloc(VALUE self, VALUE size)
 {
@@ -26,6 +32,13 @@ rb_dl_malloc(VALUE self, VALUE size)
     return PTR2NUM(ptr);
 }
 
+/*
+ * call-seq: DL.realloc(addr, size)
+ *
+ * Change the size of the memory allocated at the memory location +addr+ to
+ * +size+ bytes.  Returns the memory address of the reallocated memory, which
+ * may be different than the address passed in.
+ */
 VALUE
 rb_dl_realloc(VALUE self, VALUE addr, VALUE size)
 {